Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pitched high, was almost shrill. As he warmed to his speech (see Page 5) he spoke more rapidly. He pointed an accusing forefinger at the Senators grouped on the Republican side of the Chamber. He paced up and down and gesticulated fiercely. As his remarks became more pointed, a slight flush, as if of embarrassment, appeared on the face of the President. Secretary Hughes grinned. Chief Justice Taft looked puzzled. The Cabinet and Supreme Court appeared amused. The galleries tittered, then laughed outright. The Representatives took it in good part. Only the Senators were glum. Senator Reed of Missouri stifled...
...appearance, the Marshal is slight, supple, short with the bandied legs of a cavalryman. His blue eyes, luminous, still retain much of their flash and his mental faculties are alert. He is difficult to converse with, being by nature taciturn, a strange virtue in a Gascon; but when he has a subject in hand to discuss, he begins willingly and almost invariably prefaces his remarks with "Let's get down to business." His aunt says of him: "I always wait until Ferdinand has chewed his third cigar before I look for him to come out of his thoughts...
...cast play it in a shuffling fashion. Edgar Stehli as the idealist, Walter Abel as the sergeant and Helen Freeman as the wife were like mushrooms nodding underground. The slight piece would make a shimmering curtain-raiser, if the cast were whipped up into playing it more smartly...
...Graphic, two days later, he came upon an editorial. It was en- titled "An Artist's Dream and An Editor's Nightmare." Read he: "The slight earthquake which occurred last Saturday . . . was certainly news of such a kind that papers were under the strictest obligation to give all the facts and only the facts...
From comparison of their respective scores, the two rival teams are very evenly matched, with perhaps a slight edge on the side of Yale. The two teams have faced but one common opponent, Andover, who defeated the Crimson by a close score, but were decisively beaten by Yale. Both teams have lost two games, Yale having fallen before Dewitt Clinton and Peddle, while the Crimson succumbed to the attack of Andover and Hebron Academy...