Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plugging tickets for Les Jours Heureux, a play to be given soon by L'Alliance Frncaise. And from every corner, from each table, from almost every double-chinned throat came the meticulous machine-gun syllables of France. There was good and bad French, Parisian and Cambridge French, plus a minor torrent of Berlitz, Quebec, Linguaphone, Minneapolis, and Sornbonne French. Ah, thought Vag, just like those immortal days in Paris--he heard a particularly grating bit of Brooklynese patois and corrected himself-or rather those hours at the American Express office. Altogether, he felt sure that La Marseillaise should have been...
...that event," he added, "the Italian fleet could provide some marine diversion in case of a thrust through Hungary into Rumania, and could hamper the shipment of supplies to the Weygand forces in Asia Minor...
...sunny oldster dandling children on his knee. In "The Life of Giuseppe Verdi", a script-writer's florid fancy and an actor's indecisive acting are diligently at work portraying bearish youth mellowing into crochety old age. Inconclusive in its characterization, the picture meanders shapelessly through the minor crises in the composer's life, in a disjointed course that lacks both interest and conviction. A weak-kneed attempt to build up Verdi as a nationalist idol bogs down in conventional heroics. In a last desperate effort at unity, the director drags in a love complication as profoundly touching as Hollywood...
...Fibber is always Fibber, but Molly plays many recurrent script characters-Grandma, frustrated Mrs. Wearybottom, Teeny, a neighbor's child famed for throwing Fibber for a minor loss every time she pops...
...another way. In mid-season last year two pitchers met in a minor league game down in Beaumont, Texas. Their names were P. Dean and L. T. Rowe. Both were knocked out of the box. Five short years ago in the major leagues the lesser half of the great team of Me-and-Paul had pitched a no-hitter, and the acclaimed American "Schoolboy" had wrung up his unbeaten string of seventeen straight. Rowe is this year trying to come back, but Paul is done. Dizzy has joined Paul, to all intents and purposes. Hubbell, true, shows signs...