Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parker's crew is one of the three crews that were retained just prior to the Spring vacation. The crew has been designated as the "Red" crew, and has been victor over both the "Blue" and "White" eights consistently since the holiday practice. Coach Haines intimated that slight changes might still be made before May 4, but at present the plans are that Parker's eight will remain intact until then...
...papers any more than the assistant football manager can hope to suppress the Harvard football news", appears the Harvard football news", appears to be, to say the least, a lack of taste. And to define good will "literally" in terms of cash is more than a slight confusion of values...
Bird in Hand, named for the Gloucester inn in which it takes place, contains the slight story of a romance which is opposed by the girl's father on the rather unusual ground that he does not want her to marry above herself. It is, so far as plot goes, thin fare, but Mr. Drinkwater has thickened it with some highly diverting comedy so smoothly played that it does not seem extraneous. The entire cast has been brought from London, where the play has run a year, and is considerably more than adequate. Ivor Barnard and Herbert Lomas...
Last week the entire faculty of the Stamboul Divinity School was summoned to conference with President Kemal. Secret though the meetings were, two important Kemal-changes loomed. One prospect was a renewal of the order to Latinize the Koran. The other, even more radical, was a slight Christianizing of Mohammedan ritual. Correspondents reported that this would include the wearing of shoes and slippers in the mosques instead of leaving them at the door as good Mohammedans have done since the prophet's day. Moreover, instead of kneeling on prayer rugs, the Kemalized Mohammedans may be seated in pews...
Francine Larrimore may be seen in an amusing comedy of manners, "Let Us Be Gay" and Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis are together again in A. A. Milne's slight and not too entertaining whimsy, "Meet the Prince." That frail poetic tragedy, "Paola and Francesca", replete with pretty costumes and phrases such as "the stars in palpitating cosmic passion held" has Jane Cowl in the starring role and Walter Hampden is playing "Cyrano" once more up-town at his Sixty-second Street Theatre. Margaret Anglin does valiant work in making a drama of tragic married life, "Security" convincing and next...