Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canada's Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett, however, the City Chamberlain seemed to have some slight present doubts. At the first session of the Imperial Conference Prime Minister Bennett was very outspoken about Canada's rights, even in some respects defied the Mother Country (TIME...
Banker Leavell was born in Missouri, speaks with a slight southern accent. He began banking in his father's bank at Fulton, Mo., rose to vice-presidency of First National Bank of St. Louis, resigned that position in 1920 to take a similar office in Continental & Commercial National Bank. After Continental merged with Illinois Merchants Trust Co. in 1928, Banker Leavell was made executive vice president of Continental Illinois Co. (investment subsidiary), last year was made assistant to the chairman of the Company, assistant to the chairman of the bank. His election was no surprise, leaves the three principal offices...
...still worse to be a walking Harvard Tradition. As the time approaches for the perennial reading at the Union, the Vagabond realizes that a generation has grown up which knows not Copey, now grandiloquently Emeritus. Through the honeyed sentimentality of the Copy legend, there emerges from Hollis only a slight figure covered with a derby and an air of complete detachment. When the day arrives and the raw recruits upsurp the mellow places, the vagabond fears that Copey will visualize with even more complacency his famous headlines: "Hollis a Holocaust, Copey a Crisp...
...slight, gentle little man with a small mustache and an Airedale terrier walked down one of Princeton's quiet, leafstrewn streets one afternoon last week and turned in at University Field. As soon as the burly young men who were punting, passing, scrimmaging over the scarred grass saw the visitor they immediately dropped their practice and gathered about...
...married on the assumption that Husband number one is dead. This is back in 1905 and '06. As every one expects, the first husband turns up, but this is in 1919 after a son has arrived to complicate matters. A weak heart fortunately carries off the deserter during a slight scuffie with Michael, by this time a budding novelist. This incident is covered over and it is not until 1930 that the illegal marriage of the supremely happy Michael and Mary gets another blow. Highly devoted and avowedly Victorian son David takes a young lady in marriage and the truth...