Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diplomats recalled that the President has been at some pains to make it clear that he intended no slight to Anton when he was forced to cut short the latter's ill-timed harang. A note of explanation was later despatched from the White House: ". . . it is not permissible for the President to receive public address from people of another nation, unless they be presented through the usual diplomatic channels...
...especially the queerly gesticulating fingers of their fellows, fingers that seemed to fly in fluid curves, hooks and angles, fingers that flipped with exact intention. Then the realization came that these deaf persons had come to Trinity Church to attend the ordination to the Episcopal priesthood of James Stanley Slight...
...Slight has been the sympathetic lay reader for the deaf of New England these many years, has been their acting minister the past six months. He takes pains in bringing to all his people the word of God. And this the deaf appreciate because, deprived of a sense and often mocked at, they tend to withdraw from more normal associates. They all too constantly fear a neighbor may be gossiping about them...
...teams tonight will be supplied with a wealth of reserve strength. The Purple squad has two forward lines of almost equal power although the individual brilliance of Captain Watkins, center and chief scoring threat of the Berkshire six and Popham, speedy wing, has given the first string line a slight edge in starting games. At the defense posts Howe and Baker have started nearly every game for the invaders, and have proved equally efficient at checking and at playing down...
Before the Committee reported, Secretary Mellon appeared before it. He told the Committee: 1) That the agreements with Latvia, Esthonia, Czechoslovakia and Roumania conform with only slight variations to the form of the agreement established when the British debt was funded. 2) That some concessions were made to Belgium on her pre-Armistice debt. 3) That in the case of Italy substantial concessions had to be made because her capacity to pay was small; the full principal of the debt is to be paid, but interest will vary during 62 years from ?% to 2%. He called attention...