Word: meager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five-man papal inquiry commission soon established that Tardini's and Montini's names had been forged to the orders. Their findings led directly to blond, youngish Monsignor Eduardo Prettner Cippico, a well-born native of Trieste and a Vatican archivist. Though his salary was meager, Cippico owned an 18,000,000-lire apartment in Rome, an Alfa Romeo, a Fiat and a Chrysler. He liked to entertain expensively. The day before Easter last year, waiters at a fashionable restaurant at Posillipo, near Naples, had their hopes of an afternoon off dashed when Cippico phoned that he would...
...more than in World War II, fight with equal vigor everywhere, it must consider the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Far East as theaters of containment only. Marshall stubbornly refused to think of China in any other terms. So far as he was concerned, meager economic assistance had to suffice for the Chinese...
...innocent man, convicted of murder, who is incarcerated for twelve bleak years. A wife who abandons him. A mother who never lost faith, and who scrubbed floors for defense money. . . . But the story gets better! And here is where we all come in: "A movie company paid him a meager $1,000 to make his story into a movie." The picture has already been made (Call Northside...
...Garner thought that Henry Wallace, his successor as Vice President, had "crazy ideas" and that Henry Morgenthau "had no ideas at all." Garner wondered "by just what methods of sorcery one of such meager abilities remained in the high post of Secretary of the Treasury." Once Garner said: "Morgenthau is the most servile man toward Roosevelt. . . . In Cabinet meetings, he looks like he is afraid someone will ask him a question and he will give an answer that will displease Roosevelt."* Garner tried to joke with Morgenthau, gave it up "because he had no sense of humor." Then he amended...
...comparison with another political satire that appeared in another election year, "Of Thee I Sing." Some of the same people are involved, too, but neither scriptwriter Charles MacArthur nor director George S. Kaufman has been able to inject spontaneity or hearty comedy into the new movie, which is a meager effort in a field loaded with opportunities for spoofing...