Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second day. By afternoon, when he finally moved, the Union left had been reinforced and it was too late. Biographers Eckenrode and Conrad reluctantly absolve Longstreet, reluctantly admit that over-polite Lee did not order an early attack, simply suggested it. When it was reported to Longstreet that a slight shift in direction would flank the enemy, which was Lee's intention, Longstreet stubbornly refused, insisted on carrying out Lee's obviously mistaken orders...
...rapidly that 14-passenger planes now in service are incapable of handling it. With 40-passenger planes, say operators, traffic volume would be almost trebled while operating cost remained the same. In addition, according to the airlines, standardization would put an end to needless obsolescence caused by constant slight improvements in rival's equipment...
...only curtailment found necessary was a slight reduction of intercollegiate schedules, with games outside of New England being called off in most cases...
...first play he saw at "the Vakhtangov Theatre. It was a spy story laid at Odessa in 1920, when the Reds were fighting the Whites and practically everybody else in Europe. Every Moscow theatre group has its own hallmark. At the Vakhtangov the hall-mark is a slight caricature of impersonation. "Men with long noses have very long noses, women with large hats have very large hats, thin men are very thin, fat ladies are very fat. They are a little like characters of a Peter Arno album come to life...
...series of cinema biographies. Its subject is the great English nationalist, Cecil Rhodes, famed as unifier of South Africa, better known in the U. S. as founder of the Rhodes Scholarships. Though it is solely with the former that this British picture deals, the U. S. need feel no slight, for Walter Huston was taken to England to play the lead in an otherwise all-foreign cast...