Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such miscellaneous ingredients as plot and cast, the former is slight and the latter is slick. Full of such odd characters as a valet recruited from the Salvation Army who refers to himself as "we" and a typical Edward Everett Horton queer played by Edward Everett Horton, the picture supplies at least a token of filler between the main-event Rogers Astaire routines...
Varsity racquetmen will be aiming for their third win of the intercollegiate season today when they meet a Williams squad at 4 o'clock in the University Squash Courts. Coach Barnaby's men are given a slight edge because McGill, beaten by the Crimson 3 to 2, later defeated the Purple of Williamstown...
Absent Treatment. For its past 21 years, Town & Country has been unobtrusively owned by William Randolph Hearst. Slight, worldly-wise Editor Harry Bull, like Hearst, went to St. Paul's School and Harvard, won fame of a sort in 1924 when he bested the then Prince of Wales in a pillow-fight aboard the Berengaria, returning from Europe. He worked briefly for TIME, moved to Town & Country from the late International Studio in 1931, became editor in 1935. Owner Hearst has never darkened Bull's editorial door, or given Town & Country's small staff of 13 anything...
Starred in the dual plot of the John Fletcher comedy were Francis MacNutt and Seabury Quinn. While neither could by any means be said to have given a remarkable performance, they both played the rather slight material to the hilt, aiding the general effect of making a live comedy out of what could have sounded like a misplaced textbook. Anna Prince and Elaine Limpert took the corresponding female roles with a corresponding gusto, while Cathleen O'Conor emerged from a secondary part with the only really polished performance of the evening...
...American student stands in a peculiarly aloof position. He has little contact with his fellow students on American campuses and he has little contact with students in Europe. His horizons are drawn on narrow lines, both at home and abroad. With others, the intellectual exchange is slight and cooperative action negligible...