Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Much of Copey's hold over his audience comes from his distinct personality. His gestures, slight inflections, and side comments, which are all a part of this personality, give his reading its individual stamp. The microphone cannot pick up these essential elements...
Reasons for entering the house are given as follows: six men were convalescents from Stillman Infirmary, eight were suffering from depression, 17 from exhaustion, two from homesickness, two from malnutrition, four from nervous breakdown and two from slight illness...
...with Ted [Coy] and he was a marvel. He'd just run through them and the tacklers would fall aside, a lot of them with broken bones. . . . The greatest player I have ever seen? . . . Eddie Mahan. . . . The greatest Big Three team since 1904? . . . My 1923 team had a slight advantage over the others...
Last week's concert again suggested that lonely individuals make the greatest music. The Orchestra played the Bach-Beethoven-Brahms program as if completely bewitched by the slight, grey-haired figure, swaying constantly, sometimes singing along in a thin, croaking voice. The smart audience was also hypnotized into perfect behavior. It arrived punctually, never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire...
Banker Leavell was born in Missouri, speaks with a slight southern accent. He began banking in his father's bank at Fulton, Mo., rose to vice-presidency of First National Bank of St. Louis, resigned that position in 1920 to take a similar office in Continental & Commercial National Bank. After Continental merged with Illinois Merchants Trust Co. in 1928, Banker Leavell was made executive vice president of Continental Illinois Co. (investment subsidiary), last year was made assistant to the chairman of the Company, assistant to the chairman of the bank. His election was no surprise, leaves the three principal offices...