Word: slighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orange and Black. For a young and untried coach has brought much of conjecture and enigma with him from the west to Cambridge. Under Horween the Crimson eleven has journeyed a more checkered road than for many seasons past. Two defeats began the season, Geneva affording Crimson followers the slight consolation that could be denied from its excellence, and Holy Cross allowing the Crimson stands at least three periods of exultation. William and Mary struck a faster, smoother, keener eleven than Boston newspaper writers had seen for several years. The grand Crimson climax came when French sprinted through the twilight...
Nevada. Raymond T. Baker, Democrat, v. Senator Tasker L. Oddie, Republican. Mr. Baker, rich, romantic, fashionable, is popular enough among Nevada's 33,000 voters to be given a slight edge over his opponent, who is rich but not romantic...
...Germany. Specialty Shops tradesmen of Portland, Ore., individualists catering to individualistic customers, have adopted a program of enlightened co-operation to offset the competition of department stores. Department stores are inherently consolidations of specialty shops, but, depending upon mass sales, they tend to stock only standardized products and to slight the buyer who has personal whims. Portland shopkeepers, who make a point of such individual service and thus attain the fascination of the English and French shops, have grouped as the Greater Portland Association to advertise their peculiar advantages...
...dives into the melting pot business without fetching up an Irish-Jewish wedding. For another, it keeps itself, in this nervous age, as innocent of agitated movement as a stuffed porpoise. The entire second act, shunted in bodily from the vaudeville circuit, consists of a classroom scene, leaves the slight plot snoozing at practically the same complication it had reached when the curtain crept down on Act I. The audience was quick to appreciate that vaudeville interpolation. More than a series of dialect jokes is the picture of Life's graduating seniors entering the Freshman class of night school...
...Chinese water-cell" escape is clear to any observer of normal alertness. The stocks used are made of wooden halves fitting into an iron frame with a flange in it to keep them from slipping through. No man could pull the blocks downward through this frame, but only a slight push upward by a man suspended from it would free the wooden halves of the stocks. The purchase for such a push is provided by two rings on the bars inside the water cell, rings whose innocence is made apparent by using them to lower the cage of bars into...