Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then a slight warm wind arose. In four hours the ice was gone. There were no major catastrophies, no fires of consequence, no deaths. Amarillo stirred like a somnambulist awakening, estimated its damages in the millions. Four days passed before telephone and telegraph communications made Amarillo once again part of the outside world...
...more ambitions men have chances to move. It is inevitable that some men are going to take those chances; they would whether or not they became Nieman Fellows. The Fellowship marks them out and increases the prospect of better offers, but I should like to point out how slight has been the movement of Nieman Fellows to New York...
Dante is not the old-style of magician who merely palms cards. Although he proudly boasts there isn't a blush in his show, Dante himself has a captivating stage personality and with a slight change of subject matter could fit well into a "Panama Hattie." Of course there are bound to be slow moments (like the finale which features Uncle Sam and a blonde subbing for the Statue of Liberty), but you will never be able to forget, that you are watching the world's greatest magician...
...trip got off to a ragged start in Santa Barbara and San Francisco, where movie actors are no novelty; but roaring business farther east precipitated a slight internal explosion when the members were forced to do five or six shows daily instead of the agreed four. Lolly soon quelled the uprising (her column is the most frightening bludgeon in Hollywood), thereafter kept things going swimmingly. In Manhattan on Christmas Day she spread cheer with a party for her "children," presented the girls with $150 evening dresses, the boys with equally expensive remembrances. Camaraderie eventually spread to the point where Actor...
John Cochrane jumped on a bad Eliot center in the first period to give Lowell the ball on the 2. A Slight penalty meant nothing to Joe "The Masked Marvel" Lyford, who smashed off tackle on the first play to score standing...