Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concert singer, draws the attention of the theatre like a magnet whenever the Moor speaks forth in his deep and melancholy tones. The giant Negro acts the part of the brave but not too intelligent warrior with exceptional understanding, giving it a depth which several of the lesser but more sparkling parts lack...
Some U.S. tank columns zigzagged to set up the final trap against the Seine, but that and the original Argentan-Falaise pocket were now of lesser importance. The 1944 versions of Sheridan's cavalry crunched over the Seine, ground around Paris. They could now prevent formation of any line short of the Rhine...
...magician, materializes birds out of blue smoke, hurls knives at royalty, effects a hairbreadth escape from the royal guards, marries off his pretty, dark-haired daughter (Joy Ann Page) to the handsome young caliph (James Craig), carries off Miss Dietrich for himself. Meantime Miss Dietrich, her renowned legs and lesser anatomy encased in a heavy layer of gold paint, performs a Hollywood nautch dance as politely voluptuous as the Hays office allows...
...cluttered cubbyhole off the city room of the Washington Star, spry, ruddy Cliff Berryman began the job of arranging the 2,000 in order. Many of the estimated 40,000 he has drawn are scattered. Presidents from McKinley to Franklin Roosevelt, lesser statesmen, tycoons have befriended him, complimented him, collected his originals-which he gives away for the asking, never sells. Though never syndicated, his cartoons have been widely reprinted. Fellow craftsmen dedicated their cartoons to him on his 70th birthday. This year his cartoon "But Where Is the Boat Going?"-showing Congress, the President, McNutt, Hershey, Lewis, Green...
...Saint-Malo, a lesser port on the northern coast, the situation was different. The Germans had 10,000 men in the defenses when a U.S. spearhead drove across the causeway and into the ancient, walled, seagirt city. By this week the U.S. forces had killed, captured or wounded 7,000 of them, held nine-tenths of the town...