Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stature for Solemnity. The New Look does not imply sophistication. Says Oscar: "The sophisticates have let us down." The theme of Allegro is a simple, minor-key faith shared by many Americans: a kind of puzzled sympathy for the puzzled ("Poor Joe! The older you grow, the harder it is to know . . ."). Oscar is a sentimentalist who is repelled by the materialistic din of big city living. One lyric in Allegro says bitterly...
Freshmen, all of whom won letters in secondary school competition, represent such minor league teams as Winsor, Buck such minor league teams as Winsor, Buckingham, Bryn Mawr School, Albany Academy, and Bolmont High. The most promising among them are Jean McCormick, Ann Loomis, Joan Gardiner, Mary Connor, Penny Hughes, Valentine Loring, Jennifer Post, Cynthia Williams, Rosamond Johnson, Enid Maslon, and Mary Brandt...
...main grievance concerned the time a pilot had to put in on "standby" duty apart from regular flying time. Actually, the grievance was a minor point. The union's chief complaint was that A.O.A. had not given its bargaining agents enough authority to come to terms, that company officials were "stalling." After bargaining for 20 months, the union had voted in August to strike if agreement was not soon reached. American Overseas replied that Behncke had walked out on the negotiations and that it would not negotiate until the pilots went back to work. To back up these words...
...highest officer Jones ever gets to see is young Brigadier General Bullblank, A.A.F. The young general testily offers him three minutes to explain his mission, but uses up the three minutes and nearly an hour more orating to Jones on the minor branches of the Armed Forces. These include the "musical comedy Marines . . . in the Pacific"; the Navy which "sits around . . . eating steak three times a day fried in butter," and the Army which is stalling the war along "until a Ground Forces officer receives the surrender. They'll cheat us [the Air Forces] out of it. Well...
Once Jones, through a political value he did not know he had, almost slips out of channels and up to the President. The 1944 election is coming on, this is a democracy, and minorities are important. A White House secretary hears of Jones and figures he's just the boy to deliver the votes of "the Assyrians, the Chaldeans, the Turks, the Etruscans and God knows how many other minorities." But the White House secretary turns out to be just one of Steve Early's minor assistants. Jones's appointment is delayed until Franklin Roosevelt dies...