Word: slightingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...piece of lead pipe to swing whenever he thought of him, was "Chappie"- St. Paul's famed Housemaster Willard "Chappie" Scudder. Chappie wore a bifocal pince-nez and a drooping, waxed mustache, dressed in the height of fashion, was thoroughly at home at lawn parties,"never let his slight paunch get to be more than a slight paunch," in every way exemplified "the right attitude...
Harvard has been the victim of far too many long-distance touchdown gallops in the past few years. Slight defensive lapses have proved fatal. This present Crimson team seems to be capable of heads-up play for 60 minutes of football. The line is more rugged and should be able to prevent too many long thrusts, but the backfield may be vulnerable to forward passes. Lee and Heiden are quite definitely short, while Spreyer and Gardella are about six feet. They looked lost trying to cope with a man like tall Harlan Gustafson of Penn last year, and there...
...visitor in Chungking for the last bomb-cracked month has been Lin Yu-tang, whose interpretations of China to the West (My Country and My People, The Importance of Living) once offended high Chinese officials because they were so honest. Slight, middle-aged but boyish, quick to smile, master of four languages and scores of moods, he is China's philosophic Ambassador at Large...
...towns of the Southwest, in the honky-tonks of Memphis, in mountain hamlets in the Blue Ridge and the Cumberland, a perennial visitor for 25 years has been a lean, loquacious man, with a slight British accent and a portable recording apparatus. Grey-haired Arthur Edward Satherly is paymaster, musical coach, father confessor to the blues singers, hillbilly fiddlers, guitar-strummers, jug-players, washboard-slappers who make Columbia's Okeh* records by the dozen. In this grass-roots musical field, only Decca competes with Columbia. Decca's hillbilly man is David Kapp...
...nothing do the portraits of John Buchan bear a slight resemblance to those of Calvin Coolidge. His native taciturnity reinforced by a diplomat's decision to write "at length only of the dead," Autobiographer Buchan was evidently not writing for posthumous publication. Of the mental climate in which he grew up, the architecture of his life and his world, he writes warmly and well. Of himself, he tells as little as an autobiographer decently...