Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, city of delicatessens, liverwurst caused a minor crisis last week. Rationed at seven points a pound, it lost most of its appeal. Since liverwurst can be kept only a few days dealers stared moodily at their moldering stocks...
...overseas soldiers one of the minor mysteries of war has been the cigaret supply. In the Philippines men who had to eat carabao and mule meat could understand why their cigarets dwindled to a pack a week and finally disappeared. But U.S. troops in Australia whose supply has never been seriously impeded do not know yet why they smoked a low-selling brand like...
...scafaring men, authentic sources indicate that the typical NSCS weekend probably includes at least scraping the deck at the Statler, conducting "sociological" tours to New York, or remaining at home delving into the Manual. 'Tis significant, though, that a considerable number of men lenderedence to the idea that a minor emphasis is placed...
...certainly one of the most spectacularly feminine of feminists, leaving such things as bloomers and cigars to the merely high-minded. One of the first sculptresses on record, she had a vigorous if minor talent. She also designed her own startling clothes; all her life she looked like the prizewinner at a masquerade. By the time she was in her middle 205 she was the good friend of Humboldt and Schopenhauer. By the time she was in her middle 305 she had modeled these two, as well as Garibaldi, George V of Hanover, Victoria of England, Ludwig II of Bavaria...
Elisabet was sustained by an appealing cast of minor eccentrics. She would never admit that she had married Edmund Montgomery, bastard of a Scottish baron, lifelong searcher for the mainspring of life in the pullulations of protoplasm. All his life he called her "Miss Ney." In his silence, his patience, his courage, his poetic nobility, he emerges as almost a saint. Crescentia ("Cencie") Simath, the maidservant, was apparently paralyzed with love for Edmund and endured, if possible, even more than he did. Lorne, the son, was a tragic, horrifying product of idealism crossed with rampant mother love...