Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GUARDSMAN-A slight and yet significant discussion by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne of how good an actor must be to deceive his own wife...
...hats. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald came in a soft felt and a lounge suit, a fact which brought joy to the shires but caused a slight depression on the Exchange. Lords and ladies, Knights and gentlemen, they saw pictures that pleased them-suave specimens of super-photography in oil, executed by the hand of man, unassisted by any machine. Sir John Lavery's adept portraits of George Bernard Shaw, of Jockey Steve...
Matching stroke for stroke, the two eights swept down the course, with Captain Kelley's boat maintaining a slight lead. Although Pennsylvania for years has been noted for her sprinting crews, the Harvard eight equaled each Pennsylvania sprint, and at no time did the Philadelphia oarsmen assume the lead of more than a few feet...
...hours after the closing of the polls, returns began to trickle in. Early reports showed ex-Chancellor Marx, Republican candidate, in the lead; but as time wore on, Hindenburg grew stronger and stronger. Marx captured Berlin by a huge majority. At Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Cassel, Heidelberg, Marx scored slight victories over the Monarchists; but the Field Marshal came back strong in Munich, Stettin, Leipzig, Halle, "the reddest town in Germany," Frankfort, Coburg, home of deposed monarchs. Finally, in the early hours of the morning, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was declared elected President of the German Republic. Returns...
This year, the clothing industry shivered with excitement to learn that there was "a slight increase in Panamas"; bent with furrowed brow over the batting averages, precise as logarithms, computed by the scouts...