Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when his father died. He ran the oil-tool business for a while, got bored, began branching out. He and Cinemactor Ralph Graves produced a motion picture, agreed that it was too bad even to release. But he tried again, turned out two minor successes, then gambled $4,000,000 on the war-aviator epic, Hell's Angels. The picture made the late Jean Harlow the biggest box-office attraction in Hollywood -and made Hughes...
...fighting began Sunday, August 23, with a strong enemy air attack on Guadalcanal Island, in which 21 Jap planes from the Carriers were shot down with minor losses for the Americans. That night enemy destroyers opened fire on the Marines' shore positions on Guadalcanal...
...BRITISH INVADE FRANCE' . . . 'TANKS AND U.S. TROOPS SMASH AT FRENCH COAST.' All these headlines are outrageous exaggerations of the role American troops played. . . . Actually, not more than several score of American Rangers went along and, although they performed gallant and dangerous jobs, they played a minor role...
...Benny Goodman's band. Flashy, yes, but we said to one another, "He'll get over it some day." After all, Harry played on a really great jazz record, Teddy Wilson's "Just a Mood." Then he left Goodman to form his own band, and what had been minor faults, James seemed deliberately to aggravate into major ones. Instead of the Beriganesque style in which he'd been playing, Harry cultivated something new to jazz, which for lack of a definite name we'll call the Sousa style. He dragged out all the old show-pieces, like "Carnival of Venice...
About no alcohol to a minor...