Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telegram from a horse last week. The horse was Bozo, a big rangy hunter in a big box stall looking out over the rolling hills of Tennessee's fertile Harpeth Valley. The man, owner of the horse, was slight, black-haired James Geddes Stahlman, 44, publisher of the Nashville, Tenn. Banner. He was in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan where the 51st annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association had just elected him its president...
...syringes, they were daily given one milligram of morphine per kilogram of body weight and the dose was increased to four milligrams (a much smaller intake than that of human addicts). Symptoms of addiction were increased "grooming" (scratching, skin picking, hair plucking), restlessness, nocturnal activity, gastric and bowel disturbances, slight loss of weight, increased amiability and apparent sense of wellbeing. Curiously, the pupils of the ape addicts' eyes dilated, whereas those of human drug-takers contract. The sexual effect was mixed: shortly after receiving his dose the animal would mate readily, later fly into a rage and fight...
...Faithful Mary had been in a motor accident in New Jersey. Said Father Divine: "If anyone sides with her, the same curse shall fall on their heads as has fallen on hers. They shall go down with her. Her sins have brought her fall. But this was just a slight sketch to let you know what can happen." Next day Father Divine was "tired." Over him hung not only the assault charge, which he and other Harlemites seemed to think would be difficult to make stick, but also charges against other members of his cult: that his coal truck drivers...
Undismayed by this slight miscalculation, and recognizing the fact that no other train would get to the fray in time, Owens turned to the aerial route. Catching the morning plane to New York and then carrying on to Elmira, Owens found he was still 40 miles from Ithaca. This distance was overcome by the opportune appearance of a friend...
...umpire screamed "Play Ball" the veteran hot corner guardian raced on the field in a slight degree of disarray, but ready for action...