Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again it was apparent that the Crimson hoopsters are simply not good shots --that was their glaring weakness last night. And, what was worse, they never exhibited much drive for the basket even when presented with a slight opportunity for a quick break. Possibly, if they would play with the idea of driving in a shoot, foul or be fouled, they could do something against League teams which obviously have more ability than the Crimson do on set shots...
Miss Chatterton as the better nine-tenths of the combination is the only actress we have seen who could lead with both her chins and get away with it, and her slight attack of avoirdupois is not in the least detrimental of the effectiveness of her portrayal. It is unfortunate for "West of Broadway" that the same cannot be said for Walter Abel; he poses from one side of the stage to the other; and though the audience is expected to envision him as something of a great or romantic ham, he is unconvincing their as great or romantic...
...psychiatrists of the opportunity to study criminals. A murderer, he said, "is treated as the private property of the State, and no gaze of free inquiry may rest on his psyche." Only a psychiatrist, he said, can solve the "nuclear problem" of impulsive murder: why a murderer kills with slight provocation, and why he chooses a certain victim, often a complete stranger, at a given moment. He told of the case of the Manhattan upholsterer, John Fiorenza, who killed Mrs. Nancy Titterton in her Beekman Place apartment three years ago. Mrs. Titterton had called Fiorenza to repair a loveseat...
...sharp decline in the public's spending throughout the U. S. last week caused TIME'S Index of Business Conditions to drop from 98.5 to 95.4. A contributing factor in the Index's third successive decline was evidence of a slight further expansion of inventory...
...record book goes, the Crimson sextet should take the ice as slight favorites to win. Although both teams lost their games to Toronto, McGill and Dartmouth, the Hoddermen beat Princeton twice and Queens once while the Elis were routed by Queens last month and dropped both of their games to the Nassau...