Word: slim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both have gone before a higher Judge than man and each will receive his just dues. And I am in hopes Mr. Lodge repented his harsh views before he was called to meet his God. For otherwise I fear that his chances of happiness will be very slim. For our Saviour condemns every strife, malice, backbiting, selfishness and all manner of evil. And our late President was as free from those vices as mortal man could be. . . I know that his crown will be filled with stars . . . His every thought was for his country and people and what did America...
...fact that the king, defender and emperor as aforesaid, is decidedly short in stature and slight in build, the reason for his discomfiture is not far to seek. The Simms portrait exhibited him seated in all his royal robes and things, yards upon yards of them, with his exceedingly slim legs protruding from their midst. There have not been lacking people to insinuate that the satire in the portrait was intentional. Whether or not Mr. Simms has been smiling discreetly at this regal figure whose consort out-tops him by inches, the fact remains that the picture gives the general...
...middle west and south. A week ago, Klan leaders, in their pre-election prophecies, were exultantly claiming Detroit and Buffalo as their own. Now press dispatches indicate that the anti-Klan candidates have been elected in both cities, although in each case the margin of victory was slim enough to show that the Klan's power over the more hysterical voters is still to be reckoned with very seriously...
...fellows may have been apprehensive because they were excited. Each of them had found on his desk that morning a slim slip: "Mr. Giulio Gatti-Casazzaf Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, Company, will see the musical reporters on Monday afternoon at four o'clock in his office...
...Upshot, as is usual in these investigations, was nothing proved for or against physical manifestation from the spirit world. Scientists are not prepared to stake their reputations upon the slim data at hand; mediums, however honest, become hipped on their powers...