Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will have more than 13,000,000 new veterans, and all except aliens and those dishonorably discharged will be entitled to burial in military cemeteries-along with their wives, widows, minor children and unmarried daughters. To provide grave-space for the host of warriors and warriors' kin that may be buried in military cemeteries in the years to come. Congress last week hunted earnestly throughout the country for new burial grounds...
...Harold Ehrensperger, editor of the Motive, Nashville, Tenn.: "Too often [church leaders] are ugly, intolerant and unreasonable on minor vices because of their own starved lives. . . . They are oftentimes good because they haven't the courage to be bad. They are the masters of minor talents and the champions of inconsequential virtues...
...Argentine Government, however triumphant abroad, had trouble at home. Bursting from long repression, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional three minor acts of the Government. If the Court's decision stood and set a precedent, the military regime (no lover of constitutions) might fall or be forced to change its character. Argentines seemed to hope so. Twenty thousand packing-plant workers went on strike. Dock workers struck, demanding release of political prisoners. Nearly 500 Buenos Aires lawyers gathered around the Palace of Justice to cheer the Court's resurgence...
...eagerness to be cordial to the Frenchmen, sleepy little Orangeburg also has run into minor misunderstandings. When a local girl told a Frenchman she slept in the same bed with her roommate, his eyebrows rose; finally someone explained what a roommate is. Another gave a hopeful start when a proper young Orangeburger at a party one warm night remarked in her best high-school French: "Je suis chaud" (literally, "I am warm," idiomatically, "I'm feeling sexy...
...Royal Scandal (20th Century-Fox) was originally a play called The Czarina, a distinctly minor example of the Budapest school of perky lubricity. Some 20 years ago Director Ernst Lubitsch turned it into Forbidden Paradise, one of the shrewdest high-comedies in screen history. Producer Lubitsch's new version, which is directed by Otto (Laura) Preminger, has its points too, most of which are named Tallulah Bankhead. But all told, they just about manage to get the show...