Word: littlest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan. Grandson of a slave, Robinson ran away from his home-town Richmond at eight, shined shoes, worked as stableboy and waiter, danced for nickels & dimes in beer joints before he rose to millionaire stardom (as high as $8,000 a week) in vaudeville, movies (The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel with Moppet Shirley Temple) and musicomedies (The Hot Mikado). A natural dancer who never took a lesson, he gave lessons to Eleanor Powell and Ruby Keeler, originated the widely imitated stair dance, danced down Broadway to celebrate his 61st birthday. Twice married, Bojangles credited his stamina and success...
...England Deposit Library is a library for books that people don't read. It contains those gems of Harvard's 5,000,000-volume aggregation which have been found to be least in demand. Keeping these company are the littlest-read books from 11 other libraries, including the Boston Public Library and the Boston Athenaeum...
Electric Theater (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). Helen Hayes in The Littlest Angel...
Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs, had said privately and cynically (TIME, May 27) that in a completely free election the Communist-sponsored Government of Rumania would get 40% of the vote but that "with just the littlest bit of pressure" it would get 90%. In last week's election the Government parties got 84% of the popular vote, 348 of the 414 seats in the new Parliament.* But the pressure was anything but "littlest...
Toward the '50s. From the look of things in the mid-'40s, those who essay to define Uncle Alfred are more likely than ever in the past 30 years to realize that they have something in common with him: humanity. One of the best and littlest magazines, Horizon, has kept going in London through all the blitzes since 1940, elegantly edited by Cyril Connolly; among its contributors "blast" is too thoroughly understood as a technical term to be wished on anyone. In the U.S., two old Fugitive poets, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate, are editing the Kenyan...