Word: minored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perverted brilliance of a Goebbels, the bravado of a Goring, the bold genius of a Speer. He was an unquestioning, ordinary bureaucrat, with the ordinary bureaucrat's training. After serving as an infantry captain in World War I (in which he lost an eye), he became a minor official in the German Ministry of the Interior. Disgusted by the weakness of the Weimar Republic, he joined the Nazis and betrayed government information to them. A specialist in constitutional law, Lammers was responsible for the legislative maze with which the Nazis surrounded their most lawless acts. He created the notorious...
...Technicians noted one minor flaw: in the closeups, Toscanini's starched white cuffs made long shadows on the screen...
Died. Maude Howe Elliott, 93, last survivor of the four daughters of Julia Ward Howe (Battle Hymn of the Republic), civic leader and chronicler of Newport, R.I.; in Newport. Existing in a climate of literary and artistic success all her life, she gained recognition herself by writing the minor sagas of the people and places she knew well (My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford; This Was My Newport), won the 1917 Pulitzer Prize (with Sister Laura E. Richards) for Julia Ward Howe, a two-volume biography of her mother...
Black Narcissus (in color) carried off three minor prizes apiece (for art, set and camera direction); a special Oscar went to Italy's magnificent Shoeshine...
...Russian bells, or zvon, are a delight to lovers of carillon music. Back in 1931, a Russian expert was sent along with the bells to aid in their intallation. A suspicious man, he was continually afraid that his food was being poisoned. After a minor illness he was finally shipped back to the U.S.S.R. when a Stillman nurse discovered him drinking a bottle of ink for breakfast...