Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Stenio Vincent of Haiti is a silver-haired, silver-tongued politician who is supported as loyally by the lesser politicians of Port-au-Prince as he is hated by Haitian exiles in Harlem. His friends say he is a statesman; his enemies call him a dictator; both agree that he likes a pleasant job. Such a job is the Presidency of Haiti...
...Angeles' glittering, stadiumlike Biltmore Hotel Bowl, 1,400 big and little cinewigs reverently listened to President Roosevelt (see p. 13), exuberantly hurrahed for Responder Bette Davis. They alcoholically splurged for a couple of hours as the lesser Academy Awards were doled out, pulled themselves together at last as John Ford (the only directorial nominee not present) got his Oscar for the year's best direction (The Grapes of Wrath). Then panting David Selznick got one for the best production (Rebecca). Thereupon Actress Lynn Fontanne, fresh from her evening's performance next door in There Shall...
...Gods. While Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, his Cabinet and other privileged persons followed the Son of Heaven into the sanctuary of his ancestral goddess, thousands of lesser Japanese made their way to Shinto shrines throughout Japan. Outside the gates of the shrine to the war dead in Tokyo, women offered white girdles to the worshippers. These girdles, stitched with red, make soldiers who wear them invulnerable. Before entering the gates each worshipper purified himself by washing out his mouth in a common pool. Before leaving, each worshipper tossed coins before the shrine. In the lesser shrines, as in the Imperial...
...Academicians in general have unusually low cheekbones. This distinguished sign of higher civilization, however, shows not greater use of the brain but lesser use of the chewing organs...
...work on an angry, pictorial dirge called "Humanity Now." Stalinist Siquieros, always active in party politics, let his organizing and speechmaking interfere with his painting, ended up four months ago in the pentitentiary, accused of complicity in last May's Trotsky assault. Meanwhile many of Mexico's lesser and younger painters, secure in Government jobs under the Leftist-controlled Ministry of Education, took to turning out uninspired political cartoons and pictorial ads for the tourist trade...