Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signor Coppola of Italy caused a slight rift in the general felicitations. His speech was a mixture of pessimism and militarism; and called for the study of disarmament "on political not technical grounds...
...automobiles, drove straight to the spot. Under the flooding, 30,000 people stood for an hour and a half, stood while their umbrellas leaked and the pure water from Heaven dripped down the backs of their necks?stood and listened to a wizard whose wizardy, like all magic of slight and faery lore, was supposed long since to have vanished. What...
Some months ago, a tall, erect, blond, young man of severely military carriage and aristocratic mien, was invited to a garden party at one of the most sumptuous villas of which modern Rome can boast. There he was introduced to a slight, dark-eyed girl olive-skinned, graceful as a faun, warm with the lambent inner radiance of the Italian heart...
...tall erect young man was smitten both with love and with a consciousness of his inferiority; he was only Prince Philip of Hesse. The slight brown-eyed girl, likewise swept into love by the fatal attraction of opposites, be-shrewed daintily the day that she was born Mafalda, Princess of Italy, and resolved to wheedle King Vittorio Emanuele into letting here stoop to her tall lover...
Died. Seymour L. Cromwell, 54, onetime (1921-24) President of the New York Stock Exchange; at Morristown, N. J., of a sudden attack of pneumonia following a slight concussion of the brain suffered in falling from his horse...