Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building itself, beyond slight damage caused by water from the hoses and sprinklers, was undamaged, and officials predicated that the room would be completely repaired in two or three days...
Last week the judges scrutinized the ice most closely when Lee and Reiter were skating for the men's singles championship. In the school figures. Lee had an edge but it was so slight that Reiter, much improved since last year, had a fine chance to catch up the next night. The chance was improved when Lee, starting his free figures with double Salchow jumps (two revolutions in the air) twisted his left knee so badly that, through the rest of his five-minute routine, he had to switch from his left foot, on which he usually takes...
...Avenue" is a good show suffering from a slight attack of miscasting. It contains an unspeakably rich heroine who alternates between haughtiness and condescension, and that part is thrust upon Madelcine Carrol. Miss Carrol is an excellent actress, and having made the transition from English society to Hollywood, she is able to adapt herself to almost anything. Still, there is always the shade of an indication that she is stooping and knows it. She has suffered worse at the hands of other heroes than Dick Powell, and she suffers to perfection. But previously her sufferings have been noble; the petty...
Shoes & Hats. Like the meat packers, the light industries which helped shoe, clothe and hat the U. S. reported a varied year. International Shoe Co. showed an $8,416,000 profit for the fiscal year through November, a slight drop. Endicott Johnson Corp.'s income ($1,974,000) was also off a little from the year before. But it was a good year for hats. Philadelphia's John B. Stetson Co. swelled its profits from $301,000 to $485,334, while Hat Corp. of America (Knox, Dobbs) reported net income of $923,000 in the year through November...
...country called, wrote Britain's first War best-seller (The First Hundred Thousand), has written 22 books, all of them displaying a school- masterly healthy mind. His latest, a cheery tale of big doings at an English boys' school, is served up cool but crisp, with a slight sogginess inside, like British toast. Housemaster should please the large U. S. audience of Anglophiles. Worst thing anyone could say about the author and its creatures is that they are all good chaps...