Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 1926, by royal command, Monologuist Draper performed at Windsor Castle. The fact that she was permitted to be presented at Court, last week, was a well-weighed tribute to the refined emotionalism and intellectual aristocracy of her Art. Incidentally the King-Emperor, who has only the very slightest taste for music, cannot but appreciate the portability of Miss Ruth Draper, who can bring an entire play into Windsor Castle at the Royal Scottish estate at Balmoral as easily as a musician could enter with a flute. Officials of the American Embassy were reluctantly obliged, last week, to request...
...recent letter from Mrs. Leeds to the Grand Duke Andrew. Excerpt: "I often played with Anastasia, who was about my own age, and Mme. Tchaikovsky has absolutely astounded me by recalling where we had played, what we had played and other incidents. I do not have the slightest doubt now about her identity, and I am willing to spend all the money I have to prove her claim...
...Pulitzer prize for Biography: "I suggest that we broadcast to the public a pamphlet challenging the American Medical Association directly. The doctors won't meet us in a hearing because they're afraid to bring the question in the open. Vivisection has never revealed anything of the slightest value to medical science...
...blood of a haemophile does not congeal normally upon contact with the air, and thus the slightest wound leads to profuse bleeding, due to the extreme retardation of the process vulgarly called "healing." Now it happens that from the haemophilic House of Hesse-Darmstadt have sprung the last of the Russian Tsarinas, Alexandra, and the present Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain. To each of these exalted mothers came the bitter pang of recognizing in her first born son a haemophile...
...uplifted hand and said quietly, "Fellows, England expects every man to do his duty," it were superfluity to add a jot. Six thousand throats have bled themselves white cheering for the team so far this season. Twelve thousand feet have stamped in unison whenever an opposing pitcher showed the slightest tendency to waver. Harvard wants no flagging of this spirit...