Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baffled by Loganberry's purity, Gaxton tries again, plants Irene Bordoni in Oliver's bed, but the Senator tops his enemies again by marrying the buxom Madame Bordelaise. Louisiana triumphs in the end, though; the investigation is called off, and Loganberry remains a frustrated Republican Presidential candidate, "with a slight chance...
Having lost only one collegiate match during the current season, and that to Princeton, the Varsity squash team, rated a slight underdog, hopes to keep the rest of its slate clean when it meets a strong Blue squad at New Haven on Saturday...
Reductions in the number of students in Government have been slight except in graduate work. A number of undergraduates have left to enter the armed forces and at least one has taken an administrative position in Washington...
Thomas C. Blaisdell Jr., 46, assistant director of the National Resources Planning Board. Pale, slight Tom Blaisdell taught economics at Columbia University and Yenching University-biggest, best-equipped Christian university in China-has worked for the Government on AAA, NRA, TNEC, National Emergency Council, Social Security Board...
...Granville Bantock, bearded, British, 73-year-old composer, laid hands on a sacred* song: the Internationale. Sir Granville thought the Internationale needed "more movement," made a few slight changes. To make the song more suitable "for English choirs and for people to sing," Sir Granville's elderly, deaf wife, Lady Helen, wrote new words. Instead of Arise, ye starvelings from your slumbers; Arise, ye criminals of want (Russia's official English translation), Lady Helen's verses began Awake, O sleepers from your dreaming; Uplift, uplift your longing eyes...