Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McGillicuddy called together most of his gleaming stars, said a kind farewell, sold them to other club owners who paid into the Athletics' treasury large sums of money. With a slight fraction of this pelf he combed sandlot, high school, college, obscure league; purchased the economical services of several bright-faced lads; settled to the business of developing another winning team. Followed lean years, amusing to Connie Mack's opponents...
...order to avoid publicity, Mr. Ford remained at home for two days before being taken to the Henry Ford Hospital at Dearborn. He had suffered a slight concussion of the brain, several deep cuts, innumerable bruises, no broken bones. He recovered gradually, painfully...
Craft. The aerial sleeper is now a commonplace to government couriers between Germany and Russia. Eight leather easy chairs in the passenger cabin convert into four bunks, with curtains. There are slight, agile cabin attendants; refreshment machines...
Lost. The program said "a play in three acts by A. E. Thomas and George Agnew Chamberlain." A. E. Thomas has done so much better that many people suspected his share in the proceedings was slight. It is about a Connecticut Yankee (Ramsey Wallace) seeking escape from Brazilian tropics, and his wife's apparent infidelity. While thus employed, he wins the heart of a native girl (Rosalinde Fuller), but decides in the end to go back to Red Hill, Conn., with his wife (Mona Kingsley). The native girl commits suicide...
...question, one which he can never decide until about 7.45 o'clock in the evening when the inexorable flying moment says "choose this--or this." Of the various choices "The Vagabond King" if he hadn't seen it already would present strong attractions--there is a slight discrepancy here for the perspicacious to pick out--and the same applies to "The Cocoanuts...