Word: scantness
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...shocked were newshawks by these lugubrious words, that they gave scant heed to two interesting observations by this rich steelmaster who grew richer out of Wartime manufacture of arms...
Only one German close to the Realmleader has a really loose tongue. Last week it was wagging wildly in Nurnberg where bald, barrel-chested Julius Streicher styles himself "Leader of the Franks" and pays scant respect to Prussia or Berlin. On his soth birthday lately he received the accolade of a personal visit from Adolf Hitler who declared: "There is one man on whose wholehearted support I can depend in every situation and who has never wavered one second, Julius Streicher...
...race. Tammany runs Harlem politically, parcels out a few appointive jobs to Negroes. In the district are one Negro police lieutenant, a Negro acting school superintendent, a Negro tax commissioner, two Negro judges, a Negro Civil Service commissioner, two Negro district attorneys. But in elective offices, Harlem has scant representation: two members of the Board of Aldermen, two State Assemblymen. Holding a balance of power last week, Harlem's two Assemblymen managed to defeat Governor Lehman's New York State reapportionment bill which would have given Harlem one more Assemblyman but no State Senator or U. S. Representative...
Calling him "a smart promoter'' and letting it go at that does scant justice to the pertinacious Kentuckian, Euclid M. Covington, who got the idea for This Week some four or five years ago and stuck with it despite discouragement, depression, and doleful predictions of the doubting Thomases...
...After a scant education in London's public schools, Richard Harrison began hopping bells in Detroit hotels. Stage struck, he went to a dramatic school for a short while, later made a precarious living by giving Shakespearean readings to Negro audiences in Canada. The next 40 years he spent as a dining car waiter on the Santa Fe running between Chicago and Los Angeles, as a police station handyman in Chicago, as a wanderer in the Deep South. At intervals he taught dramatics at North Carolina Agriculture & Engineering College, Branch Normal (Arkansas) and Flipper-Key College (Oklahoma). Mostly...