Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some of the House to the neglect of others is beside the point, since, as the CRIMSON pointed out last year, it would be quite possible to limit the number of meals which a guest could sign for. The increase in the cost of bookkeeping would be so slight that even in a time of depression it is an insufficient reason for resisting a change that would be generally approved. Fundamentally, the present prohibition is not only an inconvenience, it is a regimentation of students which ought not occur here. The seven committees might well begin their activities this year...
...slight, intensely serious, towheaded youth of 22, Johnny Goodman of Omaha felt he should have been picked for the Walker Cup team. Sports writers thought he had been omitted because he once worked in a sporting-goods store. He entered the tournament with a grudge to settle. Without fanfare he polished off Walker Cupsters Seaver and McCarthy. In the semi-finals he drew Walker Cup Captain Ouimet. Francis Ouimet, now 39, had been ill before the championship, had played hard golf to get into the semifinals, and for the first 18 holes of his match, he out-golfed Johnny Goodman...
...wrote it, is a theatrical reporter who knows more about how theatrical people talk than he does about writing plays. His picture is really a "color story" rather than the melodrama which it sometimes attempts to be or the soft satiric comedy which it could have been. The slight romance between Linden and a kind-hearted chorus girl (Joan Blondell); his associa tion with a gay and amazingly unresourceful confidence man (Walter Catlett): the bravado of his return to Willow Creek are incidents which a more astute playwright might have been able to develop without recourse to such familiar props...
...Pollak began her march toward an acquittal for the shooting of good old Joe Pollak, her onetime spouse. . . . While the State was hinting that she was a murderess and her own counsel was describing her as a wronged woman who had never done harm to anyone save for one slight killing, her pose remained the same. . . . She looked like the lady on the dollar, only more expensive...
...ward boss-ship in the republic of letters and a large (6 ft. 3 in.), fat (225 Ib.) size. As with many big men, his voice is unexpectedly high. At literary teas, to which he grimly goes, he suffers, becomes galvanized with shyness. He speaks English with a slight accent that sounds Irish rather than Dutch. Van Loon arrived in the U. S. at 21, was graduated from Cornell (1905), became successively newshawk, Ph.D., lecturer. A. P. correspondent in Belgium at the beginning of the War, he saw the siege of Antwerp, was nearly caught by the advancing German army...