Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spread, the wildest being that the Royal flotilla was dodging not ice but German submarines. By Sunday night, however, the liner had found clear weather, and steamed full speed for port. Scheduled for Monday, the elaborate welcoming ceremonies at Quebec had to be set back two days. Unwilling to slight the French population in Quebec and Montreal, Dominion officials cut the two days off Ottawa's scheduled four-day celebration. If all then went well, this would bring Their Majesties exactly on schedule to Toronto and the Quintuplets...
...regard to James' arrival, I'm in a slight quandary. There are times when Harry plays some excellent horn (see "Just A Mood"), and times when he doesn't do too well (see "Life goes to A Party"). His main trouble is that he goes off on these terribly stiff powerhouse trumpet phrases that simply tear the walls and your ears to pieces, and while there is a certain amount of kick to powerhouse style, you get tired of it very quickly, and a slow blues style such as on "Just A Mood" is quite welcome...
...improved Varsity tennis squad matches shots with the Elis at New Haven tomorrow afternoon in a ten man affair. The Barnabymen rate as slight favorites to defeat the Blue netmen on their own courts...
With the Yale match only three days away, Coach Jack Barnaby's tennis team is a far stronger aggregation than it was at the beginning of the season, and, if anything, looms as a slight favorite against the Elis on Saturday...
...attempting to express himself in such a fashion that his idea will be made clear to the onlooker, throws his whole subjective self into his creation with the result that not a great deal is left to the imagination of the spectator. Most great artists have left a slight gap between themselves and those who are receiving their paintings, thereby allowing for the expansion of their themes in relation to the intelligence of the people who see the pictures. Less external flamboyance and more inward depth will make contemporary German art more representative of the race and less like...