Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oldtime Englishmen hung up their meat ... to tenderize, and when it gave off a slight aroma it was said to be "high." A goose in this delectable condition was ready for the fall and winter feasting and festivals and, from the anticipation thereof, arose the foregoing connotation...
...investigators asked North Carolina's Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell whether they could legally raid the quarters of a suspect. The Attorney General said no. Regardless, they appealed to the police chief of Chapel Hill, got a warrant, staged a night raid on the apartment of tall, slight Douglas Cartland, graduate in the class of 1934, Phi Beta Kappa, potent ping pong player. Caught with evidence of his work, Cartland typed out a confession, reeled off a list of his clients. Brilliant, with a phenomenal memory, Cartland had supported himself and widowed mother through his cheating service. With...
...lost his job be tween editions, been replaced by order of James's son & successor. Edward Wyllis Scripps, 23. Year later the Record changed hands, dropped into stodgy conservatism, lost circulation and advertising. In January 1935 it was bought by E. Manchester Boddy (pronounced Boady). Twelve years ago slight, dapper, pencil-mustached. Manchester Boddy, a gassed and wounded A. E. F. lieutenant, was organizing the Mexican Year Book Publishing Co. He saw his chance to step up in the world when the spectacular publishing ventures of Cornelius (Farewell to Fifth Avenue) Vanderbilt Jr. collapsed; talked the receivers into letting...
...Mortuis. In saying nothing except good of dead Rudyard Kipling last week some slight difficulty was experienced by Poet Laureate John Maseneld. Said honest Mr. Maseneld: "To myself, who did not know Kipling's recent poetry, he is a Victorian poet, whose best poems are not yet as well known as they should...
...throughout California, has deposits of more than $1,000,000,000, is the biggest U. S. bank outside Manhattan. Mario Giannini is operating head, second-in-command when his famed father is there, chief executive officer when his father is absent, which is about five months of the year. Slight, baldish, Mario Giannini is at 41 a veteran of one of the classic wars of U. S. financial history-the long Depression fight in which old Amadeo Giannini lost, then regained control of Transamerica Corp., owner of Bank of America. Son Mario has a severe Latin countenance, a subtle, acute...