Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calm. A full moon flooded the snow-capped Austrian spy peak. Thirty minutes before midnight Prince Caetani pulled the detonators. From where he stood the noise was slight. Skyward hurtled the white top of the mountain and what came down was black. With the greatest of ease Italian troops then occupied the smoking crater in which they found not even dead Austrians...
What story there is to this slim, slight comedy concerns an impoverished French gentleman, a refugee from the Revolution, named Paul (Pierre Fresnay). Turning adventurer, he picks up a virginal chanteuse, takes her across the Channel to Brighton. It is 1811; Brummell struts at Bath; in & out of prim Adam houses parades the world of fashion; Guardsmen wear tight breeches; George IV is Regent. Paul's plan is to marry off his Melanie (small, saucy Yvonne Printemps) to a highborn tripper, thereby assuring himself a pension. The Regent himself asks Melanie to a souper à deux. The choleric Earl...
...Playfair, winner of last year's Triangular Meet and holder of the present record on the new course, is given a slight edge over the field, with Minor and Woodland of Yale expected to give him his hardest competition. Hogan of Princeton has given an excellent showing in Princeton's three races, and the Tigers pin their hopes on him to win for Nassau
...from his recent nasal injury, the Dunster House eleven went down to defeat 14 to 6 yesterday before the power of the Groton School team. The Dunster tally was made on a line plunge by Davis following a series of passes from Robertson to Parker. Winnie Lee suffered a slight contusion on the proboscis...
...Russell Olsen's "Mr. Eliot and the Jesuits" alone of the essays in this number bears some slight trace of that preciousness so carefully cultivated in certain Harvard circles of the 1920's. He makes the neat point that Mr. Eliot's flight to the Church has resemblances with Mr. Malcolm Cowley's flight to Communism; but on the whole his epigrams fail to hang together...