Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Aug. 24, you state that Harpo Marx broke a 13-year public silence. I think this is a mistake. It is my impression that he addressed the audience in the case of a slight theatre fire in Detroit some years...
...flag staffs at the northeast end of the trading floor, observed that the New York State flag was missing from its place beside the U. S. flag. Instead, they beheld the red banner of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, its golden hammer & sickle stirring gently under a slight draught. At this unprecedented sight, a group of reactionaries hissed, booed, catcalled...
...Mediterranean would be virtually nullified and France would be left a buffer between three Fascist States. Fortunately for the plight of the radical French Cabinet of new Premier Léon Blum, week-end reports indicated that Spanish Loyalist forces were successfully holding their own, possibly had a slight edge over the Fascist rebels. Loudly the French Government proclaimed its neutrality, but at the same time announced that French citizens could volunteer with Spanish Government troops so long as they bore no arms on French territory...
...Baldish, slight Howard Vincent ("Pat") O'Brien has acquired a high-flown reputation among Chicagoans for his mildly liberal musings on the editorial page of William Franklin Knox's Daily News. Last winter Columnist O'Brien made news by declaring that if his boss were elected President, he would of necessity follow the policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt once he got inside the White House (TIME, Dec. 2). Publisher Knox, then a good-natured candidate for the GOP nomination, was supposed to have been highly amused at this piece of intramural impertinence, let O'Brien...
That man is George Sylvester Counts. Last week the slight, peppery Professor of Education in Columbia University's crack Teachers' College turned up in Palo Alto, at Stanford's expense, to address 1,800 educators assembled for the University's annual Conference on Curriculum & Guidance. Well aware that his reputation as an eminent radical educator had preceded him to Hearstland, he began his address thus: "It's becoming almost respectable to be called a Red. Let anyone step out in defense of popular right, and he will be labeled a Communist...