Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placed by "Tours of Enchantment," a travel agency operating out of rented desk space in a Long Beach (Calif.) airline ticket agency. "Tours" was mostly a mail drop and slight, soft-spoken Charlie Otterman, 37. For a mere $385 the tourists would be lapped in luxury aboard a slim, rakish yacht, served the "finest of foods . . . five times daily," and by night would dance beneath the golden Pacific moon...
Aside from a slight case of indigestion incurred among the outfielders in the incurred among the outfielders in the heat of the midday jonquil sun, the Lampooners managed to stave off bid after determined...
...Manhattan Serenade," and "Basin Street," this last with the assistance of feet-square boards, blue on one side and red on the other. The girls did not form any flower shapes or spell out a tribute to any organization. They just swam in rhythm. "Good for the nerves," a slight fellow next to me muttered lighting a cigarette...
...while being true to the music by using the harpsichord rather than the piano which dominated the nineteenth century, they have not weakened the violin proportionately. Schneider uses a straight bow with taut hairs rather than the arched, loose-haired bow to which Bach was accustomed. Even with this slight exception, however, it is undoubtedly true that the two give the most precise demonstration to be found anywhere of the complete understanding which Bach had for the possibilities of the instruments...
...Petersburg, Fla., slight, dapper James Earl Webb, 49, operates what he calls "the world's most unusual drugstore." Unlike most independent druggists, he never felt that he needed the protection of "fair-trade" (i.e., minimum-price) laws to protect him from the competition of big chain stores. Instead, he went out after customers with such unorthodox loss-leader promotions as selling two thousand $1 bills for 95? apiece. By selling everything from meat and liquor to haircuts and ladies' ready-to-wear, he boosted the annual gross of his hustle-bustling "Webb's City" from a first...