Word: slighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Variable Sex. Twenty-six women read papers at Glasgow; 14 were botanists. One of the botanists, Professor Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan of the University of London, brought her audience to sharp attention by announcing discovery of four different sexes in toadstools. Their differences are so slight that they can be called only plus or minus. Each type can breed with the other three and, under some circumstances, with its own kind. The differences seem to result from the differences in food substances absorbed by the parent fungi. The toadstool sexes are variable. If such is true of fungi...
...camps. To her table came John W. Mackay, Irish immigrant miner. They were married. The famed Comstock Lode, in the opening of which he was an entrepreneur, yielded $300,000,000 in gold and silver within six years. Buttressed with wealth, Mrs. Mackay assailed San Francisco society, made but slight impress. She traveled to France. There her dark beauty, wit, enviable taste and prodigious fortune made her a social enchantress. Speaking flawless French, acquired from her mother, she was received in the almost impenetrable salons of the Faubourg St. Germain in Paris. Her Nevada brand of horsemanship, exhibited...
...confident the U. S. would take the series, as it had against the Army-in-India last year, and against England in 1924. Most dangerous threat of the Argentines, as everyone knows, is Canadian-born Lewis Lacey, captain and the only ten-goal man among the invaders. Blue-eyed, slight, Poloist Lacey is capable of bearing the burden of his entire team. On occasion, and notably when he played for England in 1924, he has been both offense and defense...
While her club was still swinging, he heard a dull crack. Rosa Ponselle toppled over at his feet. A ball sliced by an unknown golfer had struck her forehead just above the eyes. She was unconscious with a slight concussion of the brain. Nonetheless the woman's unbeaten will to sing which got her vocal lessons, during her Meriden. Conn., poverty, carried her the next evening to sing at Lake Placid for the benefit of the Saranac Lake Society for the Control of Tuberculosis...
...graphs, one or two plot the reactions of a slight half hour. Such is "Smile." An English husband comes to the Italian nunnery where his wife lies dying. Mismated to her, he dreads their last words together. The Mother Superior, a comfortable woman in voluminous black, greets him with the news of his wife's death. He goes to the corpse, led by a young nun who lures him with mischievous eyes, and a lovely hand "passive as a sleeping bird." In the quivering candle glow the composure of the dead face mocks him, and his embarrassed relief reacts...