Word: gauntly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Gaunt Moore...
...Thomas Gaunt Moore of St. Louis...
...barely two months! (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Not long after this staggering initial success, shrewd Chiang Kai-shek broke absolutely with the Soviet backers of the Nationalist Revolution, and today no man is oftener reviled and burned in effigy at Moscow than he ? except perhaps Great Britain's gaunt, bemonocled Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain...
...shoebill heron injured at the Bronx Zoo is one of the most singular of all creatures. Five feet tall, grey, gaunt, spindly-legged, it lives naturally in the White Nile marshes. Its head is extraordinarily large, topped by a little curled tuft. The eyes scowl, when seen from the front, stare brightly in side aspect. Queerest is its great bill, which clacks-clacks hollowly when the bird gapes or preens itself. That bill closely resembles a shoe (whence the popular name "shoe-bill") or the head of a whale (hence the scientific name Balaeniceps...
Schooled and approved by Robert Frost, a new poet interprets New England hills and fields and gaunt good folk. Spring plowing he has watched as the turning over of old earth that the sun might shine on new surfaces. Such things he wants to share with "those who love new sods...