Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drum beating . . .processions, rich dinners, and a strange girl to play with." She had been the child-mother who bore him four sons, suffered his youthful, jealous rages, stayed behind when he journeyed to London schooling. She had been the gentle, illiterate, aging woman who became his "sister" and lesser disciple, shed her high caste, mingled with untouchables, picketed toddy (palm wine) shops, urged India's fettered women to join "the struggle" for India's freedom. Once she had said that she was happiest in jail, where she held her fasting husband's cup, rubbed his hands...
Pink Sitter. Natural bravado has seen modest, round-faced, contralto-voiced Frances Langford through a routine that would have ruined lesser women. She has ranged heartily from woolen underwear in Alaska to a halter-bra in Africa. During...
...persisted in developing, so they gave up the contest and tried to find some role for her in which she could be 20. Unfortunately, she had an incomparably better voice when she looked 12, and nobody has taught her how to act more than 12 as yet--Sol Lesser was too successful with his first lesson...
...Country Gentleman) had once dropped out, then returned. So had others. A decade ago Editor Wallace began to supplement the Digest's reprint diet with a staff of original Digest authors which is now formidable. Noticeable in recent years: fewer Digest reprints from long-favored sources, more from lesser-known, smaller publications, and more original articles...
...Fort Wayne, Ind., and Pawtucket, R.I., the Anaconda Wire & Cable Co.* was indicted for deliberately delivering to Russia and to the U.S. Army Signal Corps equipment dangerously below standard. Last June the Fort Wayne case wound up with the maximum fine ($10,000 and costs) for Anaconda Wire, lesser fines for five officials and suspended jail sentences for three of them...