Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson Slight Favorite...
...essential humor of Thorne Smith's basic idea lies in its originality. This element is necessarily lost in the sequel and, since no new angle is added, the spark is gone. In fact, the replacement of Cary Grant by a fox terrier named Atlas is even a slight detriment. Billie Burke, as Mrs. Topper, runs away with all the good lines and leaves the rest to the cast to struggle with a script which is nowhere near as good as that of the first Topper picture. The superb comedy of Roland Young and Franklin Pangborn, however, overcomes the discrepancies...
Last week TIME'S Index of Business Conditions was again off a minuscule amount-from 98.8 to 98.5. The public's spending for trade purposes held steady, but spending in big cities was sharply off, due to the lack of financing activity. There was a slight indication of increased borrowing by businessmen for inventory purposes...
...strikes they celebrated, at least more frequently than they have since. Leader of this radical literary movement was Grace Lumpkin, whose To Make My Bread was one of the first U. S. proletarian novels as well as one of the best. Last week she published her third novel, a slight, simple story of a Southern wedding, which is as far from the subject of her first book as a picket line is from a pulpit. The Wedding is an interesting novel in its own right. But it is more interesting as an indication of how the proletarian novelists are developing...
...poisoned pellets scattered around by the Maintenance Department would seem to have had but slight success in alleviating the condition, the rodents continuing to wander freely in the upper stories...