Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sports stadium. As he spoke, the hot sun beat down on him. Suddenly, after 45 minutes of his harangue, Togliatti gasped and slid heavily into a nearby chair. His secretary and girl friend, Leonilde lotti, handed him an aspirin tablet: Togliatti swallowed it, then stood up, apologized for "my slight indisposition" and finished his speech in a few minutes...
...that catastrophic moment and how afterwards, not wounded himself, he helped survivors. Then a young man was brought on stage whom Tanimoto had never before seen. He was introduced as Captain Robert Lewis, U.S.A.F., the copilot of the 6-29. Enola Gay, that dropped the bomb. After a slight hesitation, the two men shook hands. Then Lewis, now personnel manager of Henry Heide, Inc. (candymakers) in Manhattan, his voice unsteady with emotion, told how he had flown over Hiroshima the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, and how the bombardier had dropped the bomb that killed nearly 100,000 people, wounded...
...remarkable man, but of course impossible, quite impossible," is the sort of thing British intellectuals say of Percy Wyndham Lewis. Such comments are usually accompanied by a slight quavering of the speaker's shoulders, as if these still bore the unhealed scars of a Wyndham Lewis drubbing. To many, the mere mention of Lewis' name evokes a hefty figure, dressed in a broad black hat and sweeping black coat, glaring sternly at humanity through formidable glasses. Sir Osbert Sitwell recalls Lewis sitting at a restaurant table back in 1919. "Remember...
...materially in preserving the Charles from being made a hideous spectacle of factories, wharfs, and tenement houses; as well as save them from the ravages of ruthless speculators. All we are asked to do is to sign the petitions which have been left in places of easy access--a slight effort in view of what it may accomplish...
...almost any country, the snooping vicar, played by Louis Jouvet, is far too sharp and sly for the English countryside. The Molyneux, however, played by Francoise Rosay and Michel Simon do an extremely good caricature of threadbare social-climbing, although Simon achieves part of his success through a slight resemblance to Charles Laughton...