Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program of the afternoon will be opened with a description of the situation in Manchuria to provide a slight background with which to prelude the actual hearings of the League Council which it provoked. This statement will be given by Mrs. L. J. Johnson. The dramatization, which is being coached by Mrs. C. W. Putnam, will then follow, the procedure, speeches, recommendations, voting to be done just as it did in Geneva and Paris...
...infant cannery, scarcely established, employs two fishermen and five factory hands, including the boss. They have very sweetly allowed us to camp in the lee of the factory, by the scanty water supply. The factory itself is not very impressive, consisting mostly of gunny sacking spread over a slight framework, with here and there a strip of echoing sheet iron. Their crayfish, however, are much more attractive, being a very noble sort of langouste. . . (Eight days later)--By this time, I am not so sure of its nobility, but is at least a very solid bourgeois...
...Calif., following a critical operation for an intestinal obstruction; Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie of Nevada, of a broken collarbone suffered during his morning canter, when his mount stumbled and fell on him; Biographer Giles Lytton Strachey, of paratyphoid fever; Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman, of bruises and a slight case of pleurisy contracted after he was struck by an automobile last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 21). His nose and forehead bandaged, Statesman Churchill left the hospital in a wheelchair after having received Mario Contasino, unemployed youth who ran him down through no fault of his. To Driver Contasino...
...guest of Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony. He came well recommended then from his native Paris where from violinist he rose to conduct his own Concerts Golschmann, presenting many a contemporary French composer. He conducted successfully after that with the Diaghilev Ballet but in Manhattan he made slight impression. The Symphony was in a badly run-down condition. Symphony men, used to calm, benevolent Conductor Damrosch, objected to Golschmann's nervous, high-pitched voice, his worried manner...
...decisive victory over a Milton Academy team in its opening game last week gives the team confidence for today's contest. The M. I. T. yearlings won over a strong Wentworth team a week ago and are conceded a slight edge of victory...