Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reserved, not a handshaking Henderson who received Comrade Valerian Dovgalevsky from Paris. Foreign Secretary Henderson was careful not to boom, "Hullo, old fellow!" Times have not only changed but utterly altered. The leaders of the British Labor Party now claim that they have not, and never had, the slightest tinge of Red. Electioneering on that basis, they emerged with 289 seats from the recent General Election (TIME, June...
...which interest me). Lest you think I am a degenerate let me say that I am married, have two children, am 32 years of age, an army veteran with Croix de Guerre, a poet of local fame at least, and a successful businessman. My wife has never had the slightest inkling of this peculiarity-for, fortunately, I identified it early. And furthermore, we enjoy a certain social position in the community. The name I am signing to this letter is not the one which appears on my business letterhead, as I use this one only in connection with an endeavor...
...have not the slightest reason to agree with the oft-heard wail that all Europe will ultimately become an American colony. Nothing lies farther from the wish of the American people than to take from the European his responsibility for the conduct of his own industry. The American wishes in his international dealings and business acts to deal with independent persons and peoples who are conscious of their own responsibility. He does not wish to deal with slaves...
...religious press toward the movies?" The Churchman took opportunity to editorialize as follows: "[Church journals] were willing, like other groups in America, to accept the statement of the motion picture industry that Will Hays had been employed to 'clean up the movies.' The editors are under not the slightest illusion that Mr. Hays has done so ... Mr. Hays ... is a skillful writer of letters to editors and leaders of religious groups. Anyone who has heard him speak at church gatherings knows his gift for pious lamentation, though we wonder whether he has ever really deceived anyone by his sobbing piety...
...only too obvious that not the slightest effort has been made by the Society to keep up with the changes in educational method at Harvard. Founded at a time when all scholastic success was measured by isolated course grades, this organization has continued on the ancient theory that what was good enough for our grandfathers is good enough for us. The present result of this policy has without question left the Phi Beta Kappa Society with a somewhat foolish grin on its scholarly features. After all, anyone who knows anything about what Harvard has of late years been trying...