Word: minored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vision of a City. As far as the man in the window was concerned, these were minor irritations. Out of the excavation on Oliver Avenue would rise a 39-story skyscraper, the Mellon-U.S. Steel building, a $28 million token of faith in Pittsburgh's future. In R. K. Mellon's mind's eye was the vision of a whole new city-a second skyscraper, the $10 million, 30-story Alcoa building rising beside a new $4,000,000 green park, other new office buildings rising on the Triangle's point. It was a vision...
...which so many pictures of world personalities were available. Czechs see very few pictures of world personalities these days. All they see are behind-the-Iron-Curtain personalities. The exhibit drew more crowds than ever before. We're not going to protest because this is the kind of minor day-to-day trouble you have running an American library in this part of the world. I'd have to be making protests every other...
With the backing of influential, politically ambitious Inquirer Publisher Walter Annenberg, he set out to work a minor revolution: nominating new men for Philadelphia's key "row offices"-controller, city treasurer, coroner and register of wills. This meant scuttling an old party wheelhorse, Controller Frank J. Tiemann, who was up for re-election in November. Meade refused to give him the party blessing for the primary. In the process, Meade almost lost one of his strongest political allies, heavy, red-faced Sheriff Austin Meehan. "Frank's my pal," cried the sheriff. "He's in trouble...
...spurred by their television success (they averaged third in the Hooperatings), the Goldbergs were back on radio (Fri. 8 p.m., CBS) after a three-year lapse, doing a weekly repeat of the TV show. It adds seven more hours of rehearsal time to the 26 already required, but only minor editing of the TV script is required for radio. "I'm writing just the way I've always written," says Gertrude Berg. "The only difference is that you can sustain a scene longer on TV. In radio, you break up short scenes with musical bridges...
...unembellished fact, considerably less convincing. Scattered among accounts of excursions to local bars and bordellos, political picnics, Shriners conventions and early jazz sessions, are the tragedies of boardinghouse friends such as Donna Guillermina, a wandering Spanish aristocrat who died of eating too much burgoo at a political rally. Minor Paul characters are shot by suspicion-crazed alcoholic spinsters, held under the water in bordello bathtubs, driven half-mad by ghostly apparitions, slashed from cheekbone to chin by jealous wives...