Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Sanders. Delicately he begins as the solid English bank-clerk husband, who suddenly is transformed into a callous wife-beating artist. And then Sanders has the picture to himself, for he storms through the following scenes with the biting venom of a freed tiger, trampling helter-skelter over lesser beings, tyrannizing those who are attracted to him, kicking away the happiness of those who happen to be in his way. Finally the human juggernaut comes to rest in the South Sea Islands, where its violent motion is dulled, and it lapses into Maugham triteness, replete with tropical nights, women...
Jane Spencer, as Nina, the singing teacher with whom Leonid falls in love, and Hibbard James as the amorous Dr. Tumansky, are effective in lesser roles. And Madeline Walkers as the cook--though somewhat stereotyped--and Charles Dean as a Junior Don Juan are excellent comedy characterizations...
...July the U.S. and Britain decided finally against a second front in Western Europe this year, and for a lesser effort in North Africa. Both Churchill and Roosevelt knew that an African invasion alone would not be a second front. Mr. Churchill last week said baldly that pinning down 33 German divisions, a third of the Luftwaffe bomber force and much of its fighter force in Western Europe did not give Russia its needed relief-and that he knew it. He also declared that the flow of British and U.S. supplies to Russia did not meet the need.* Said...
Besides these and the D.S.M., both services, particularly the Navy, give many lesser medals, such as the Soldier's Medal (for heroism not in combat, i.e., pulling comrades out of burning airplanes), Navy Good Conduct Medal, Coast Guard Good Conduct Medal...
Reading these somewhat solemn maxims out of context suggests one reason why later and lesser minds have sometimes been misled into supposing that a good deal of Washington's genius consisted of a somewhat Olympian manner...