Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slight diversion it might interest your readers to know that bathing in the Philippines is conducted in any convenient place-at a well or "on the bank of a stream where the carabao dream" and so far as adult females are concerned there is no undue exposure of the person. When the bather arrives at the place of the bath she loosens her saya (skirt) which is tied round her waist and lifts it to cover her bosom. She then removes her floppy camisa (waist) and camison (chemise) if she wears the latter garment, kicks aside her chinelas (slippers...
...largest audience of the season was in Harvard Yard August 9. The Summer school students rallied for the performance in crowds. Our poorest audience numbered seven people and convened in spite of a slight drizzle and fog in Saco, Maine. Needless to say, we postponed the performance--the only one that was called off during the summer...
...President had a slight cold. His voice was hoarse, so the Official Spokesman said little at his semiweekly press conferences...
...accomplishment of so worthy an ideal would be occasion for rejoicing. Yet it must be admitted that the hope for such a millenium is slight...
...Americans who do not like raw, cold fruit for breakfast. Yet, breakfast is my favorite mead. I look forward to it with more pleasure than to any other repast, and I enjoy it more. With a slight substitution (fish-ball for egg) on Sunday. I eat the same things for breakfast and at the same hour (7.13) every day in the year, and like white wings, I never grow weary...