Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their appointments sounded like an overture to Germany with one hand, a threatening minor for the rest of Finland with the other. Cagey Comrade Stalin was still beating out Red diplomacy 16 to the bar. Appointed as an alternate member of the Committee was Litvinoff's old friend, Anglophile Ivan Maisky, Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Scuttling along the street to visit caustic, mountain-maiming old Sculptor Gutzon Borglum in the Chicago hospital to which he had retired to treat a minor ailment, his wife slipped on the icy concrete, fractured her arm, joined her famed husband in the hospital...
...malice. The Late George Apley (1937) was a full-length portrait of a Boston Brahmin who was left like Old North Church amid a new environment. Wickford Point (1939) examined the Brill family who made up for their lack of money, brains or usefulness with proud descent from a minor contemporary of Emerson and H. D. Thoreau. Last week, in H. M. Pulham, Esquire, Marquand wryly celebrated his Harvard class of 1915 and its type of New England gentleman...
Once "Karpy's" strong feelings created a minor international situation. He went to a Soviet entertainment in Prague, at the time when the Czechs and bolshevists were on very friendly terms, and refused to rise to the strains of the "Internationale." The general furore which followed considerably upset the Professor, so he went to some friends in the foreign office and explained that he didn't want to cause any trouble, but perhaps he had best pack up and go to Nazi Germany, where an American citizen could get the proper respect. Result: Czech back down. This is a typical...
...kill. In addition he falls in love only to find that immortality denies him the love of a mortal woman. During the action of the play he is planning a another robbery-murder to get the necessary glands. Considerable suspense is built up with Scotland Yard and a few minor crooks floating around. The lead is especially well acted by Edwin Pettet, founder-director of the company, who does a perfect job all the way through. He is well supported by a number of excellent character actors, and the entire show is well handled...