Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preliminary estimates of the geographical distribution of the Class of 1938 indicate that it will follow the usual formula with more than half of the men coming from the New England states. There is a slight increase however in the representatives from the Middle West which is compensated for by a decrease in the number from southern states and foreign countries. The men come from the various sections of the country in about the following proportions: Section Per Cent New England 55 Middle Atlantic...
...swim. While she is in the water her horse gallops off with her clothes. The lover appears to help her catch her runaway beast. Naked as Eve, Eva thanks the young man for her horse and clothes, is about to depart when she trips and suffers a slight accident which causes both to spend the night in a cabin. In the cabin scenes Czechoslovak Director de Machaty confines himself almost exclusively to close-ups of Eva's face which Paris critics called "extremely audacious." Later the husband commits suicide...
...Clark Gable as Blackie Gallagher in MGM's Manhattan Melodrama (TIME, May 14) many a cinemaddict one night last week went to the Biograph Theatre on Chicago's North Side. One of them was a slight, dark-haired, harmless-looking little man in shirtsleeves, wearing a white hat and gold-rimmed spectacles. As he walked up to the box office, a man sitting in a parked car at the curb gave a start. Chief Investigator Melvin Purvis of the Department of Justice in Chicago had, for the first time in a four-month manhunt, clapped eyes on Desperado...
...purse. Though some of his biographers say he was a born soldier, Author Tomas disagrees, thinks Cervantes loathed the life but preferred it to starvation. He acquitted himself creditably in the great sea-battle of Lepanto, in which Don John of Austria destroyed the Turkish fleet, and won a slight raise in pay and a permanently maimed left hand. On his way back to Spain his ship was captured by Algerian corsairs. In Algiers, Cervantes spent five years in prison, made four unsuccessful attempts to escape, was finally ransomed...
...knees. Personally, I would as soon hit a brick wall with my fist as the cow's forehead, and it is my opinion the affair would all in all be a very sorry one for the fist engaging in said fisticuffs, with no effect besides possibly a slight headache for the other side...