Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just a few days ago, the brightest little chap was in our office for some slight offence. He is ten years old, and his name is Brandall Bryant. He sells papers during vacation, and proudly announced that he had $200 in the bank that he had saved himself. When I asked him what he was saving his money for, the lifted his head and said, 'Why I'm going to Harvard, when I get through school.' The point of this preamble is that isn't there literature that you can send him so that he will be really interested...
...place will be Murphy, who piloted the team so successfully last year. Bucknell College has made no last minute shifts in their line-up. Since the visitors are undefeated to date and equal Yale in weight, the Eli backers look for Bulldog victory but only by a slight margin...
...listening to the almost barbaric gypsy songs as if he were impersonating Ring Lardner's "wolf crawling into a bathroom window", but the Russians revel in them with genuine ecstasy and abandon. In "The Sudden Death of a Horse", one's ignorance of the language, which is an astonishingly slight handicap throughout, prevents any understanding of the dialogue, but the action to so vivid and the pantomime so unmistakable that one's appreciation becomes shockingly ribald. Besides, there is the beautiful duet called "Silence", the exquisite scenic effect of the "See-Saw" and perfect artistry of the "Minuet", and perhaps...
...city men were cheerful, said times are good, pointed gladly to extensive building, high wages, scarcity of skilled labor, slight unemployment, labor's big bank deposits, "more money in circulation than at any time since...
...three men, B. R. Wiesman '25, W. A. Coolidge '24, and J. R. Hoover '24, on the University squad. Wiesman and Coolidge will row in a pair oared shell today and Hoover will be placed on one of the four crews as soon as he has recovered from a slight illness...