Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allies agreed unanimously to invite her; Britain then addressed to France, Belgium, Italy a proposal that the inquiry or conference be held; these countries replied to Britain accepting the proposal " in principle"; Britain then submitted a draft of the invitation to be addressed to the U. S.; with "slight verbal changes " (by Belgium), Belgium and Italy approved the text of the invitation, but France knocked a lower card out of the house by insisting upon juxtaposing the words "present" and "capacity"; thereby causing the collapse of the whole structure...
Dorothy Stone is 17, slight, with light, bobbed hair, and looks too much like her father to be pretty. She sings only moderately well. But she dances like a firefly on a Summer evening. She has that inestimable gift of natural vivacity; she has distinctive personality; is carefree and entirely irresistible...
...John Hessin Clarke, ex-associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, has informed President Lowell, that he will be unable to keep his engagement at the Union tomorrow because of a slight illness. He had intended to speak on the League of Nations. The Union states, however, that efforts are being made to secure Justice Clarke for a later date...
...reason that the Orange and Black is generally conceded to be the slight favorite lies in the 23-32 victory which the New Jersey outfit scored over M. I. T., just a week after the Engineers had got the better of the University 21 to 35. Yet in even this apparently simple calculation there is a hitch, for Bemis, Technology's second best performer, fell and stunned himself near the start...
Probably nine-tenths of the audience had never seen Duse. When first she came along the little garden path at the foot of the towering painted mountains her appearance was startlingly unusual. A slight woman, her hair white, without a speck of make-up to conceal the wrinkles. Her clothes strangely simple. Her movements decisive, restrained and yet assured. Her hands, once the toast of all Europe, still stirring with their nervous eloquence. Her voice small, curiously musical...