Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lesser Evil. In Sunnyvale, Calif wearied by Bob Sarvis' long-winded, 20-minute protest over a $1 traffic fine, Judge Peter R. Bond paid the fine himself...
Other papers editorialized the same way, not only in France, but in Belgium, Switzerland and, to a lesser degree, in The Netherlands. Their common sentiment: the vast majority of people feel an angry urge to be rid of war scares; they hope for a renewed conciliatory gesture...
Along Fifth Avenue (music by Gordon Jenkins; lyrics by Tom Adair; sketches by Charles Sherman & Nat Hiken; produced by Arthur Lesser) is anything but Fifth Avenue-ish, and not often much credit to Broadway. An all-too-intimate revue, it bawls out brash ditties, features loud-colored, low-cut skits, winks its eye and wiggles its hips in such decorous Fifth Avenue spots as Washington Square and Rockefeller Center...
...find out such things as 1) how many errors are made, 2) whom the columnists talk about most, and 3) how they correct their mistakes without openly admitting that they were wrong. Wrote Taylor: Columnist "Sullivan got himself in hot water when he identified Joyce Matthews and Arthur Lesser as a 'stem twosome.' Two days later he set the record straight when he disclosed the 'Arthur Lessers [are] celebrating their 16th wedding anniversary at New Haven...
...then drew his own composite picture of the unknown diarist-a tall man, an important individual, friendly with Seward, Sumner, Douglas and lesser figures such asr William Aspinwall and James Orr, a man of the world, with a good knowledge of the French language, a strong Unionist with many Southern friends, a man with many business interests and a wide acquaintance in New York City, and-above all-a man who had been in New York City on Feb. 20, 1861, and in Washington on some 20 days between Dec. 28, 1860 and March...