Word: pettiness
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JOSEPH F. PETTI Upper Darby...
...Unity. For dreary months last winter, in a dreary wasteland camp, 5,000 men of the Greek First Brigade trained for battle service. Many were tough veterans, evzones who had doffed their exotic petti coats and pomponed slippers to fight frost bite and Italians in Albania's wild mountains. They had escaped from the homeland when the Germans turned the tide. Now they chafed to get back into the fight against the Fascists...
...think of her granddaughter, Christine Cromwell, as a glamor girl, she planned a simple debut for the 18-year-old daughter (by his first wife) of onetime Minister to Canada James H. R. Cromwell. For the party last week at her Grosse Point, Mich, estate, Mrs. Dillman brought Emile Petti's orchestra by plane from Manhattan, tied up the family yacht at the edge of the lawn (which drops into Lake St. Clair), served breakfast on solid gold plates, summoned photographers from all Detroit papers for a mid-afternoon snap-session. Same day dark-eyed Christine was named "Debutante...
...plow into a difficult and abstruse subject. He had to beat down a small but dogged opposition which filibustered against his bill for the better part of the three weeks it was before the Senate. He had to keep his temper and his tongue when abused by windy petti-foggers for whose intelligence he had only scorn and contempt. A man of smaller calibre might have given up the struggle- but not "Pluck" Glass. For his reward he had a bill in which he boasted "not an 'i' had been dotted nor 't' crossed...