Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas & Marx Sirs: Because your article under the heading Third Parties in your issue of Aug. 8 was so fair, interesting and informative. I think you may be willing to print this letter which combines thanks with slight correction or explanation of certain statements. I should like to let your readers know that by no means do I believe that "the international quality of true Socialism has to be soft pedalled in this country.'' I believe that it has to be carefully explained in language that American workers will understand. Because I am an international Socialist...
Though his friends said of him: "Marcel can never be anything but a man-about-town," Proust intended something different and bigger. Though his first two books (Portraits de peintres, Les plaisirs et les jours) were comparatively slight, attracted little attention, he was always taking notes for his Big Book, eventually filled 20 huge notebooks with material. After his beloved mother died in 1905, Proust retired from society, set to work in earnest. In his famed cork-lined (soundproof) room he lived, an invalid-recluse, for the remaining 17 years of his life, occasionally venturing out again into society...
...delegates left Ottawa for the official opening of the Welland Ship Canal between Lakes Erie & Ontario police heard of a plot to assassinate James Henry Thomas, British Secretary of State for Dominions. Orders went out for the arrest of "a Sinn Feiner of the most radical type -a slight, ruddy-faced Irishman with a broad, noticeable nose"-a description which, except for the nationality, might also be applied to Mr. Thomas. In Toronto was apprehended one Dan Malone, who said it was a "frame...
...lies the Gran Chaco, a steaming, insect-swarming triangle 600 miles by 300 between the Paraguay and Pilcomayo rivers. British Explorer Julian Duguid has described the Pilcomayo as "a vast, foul-smelling, oozy stretch of bog with as much movement as an unsqueezed sponge. ... An Englishman may obtain some slight insight into the discomfort of penetration into the Chaco if he locks himself into a hothouse, waters the flowers, closes all the windows, and allows a blazing sun to shine through the glass while he rides a stationary bicycle. Even then he will not be bothered by insects." The worst...
...Once an art student in New York and Philadelphia, Artist Stallknecht did not take up painting seriously until last year. This year she decided to decorate Old Congregational Church. In five weeks she turned out a mural 9 ft. by 20 ft. in three panels. Her Christ is tall, slight, blue-eyed, dark-haired, aged about 30. The face is an idealized combination of many Cape Cod fisherfolk. On either side of Christ's dory are His 27 listeners, who posed first in a group, then separately in Artist Stallknecht's studio. At the oars of the dory...