Word: gauntness
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Except for a gaunt, tormented Job, the subjects were still the same-Brazil's button-eyed peasant women and tattered children. "I paint," said Portinari, who is a Communist, "to teach my people what is wrong...
...full circle, and he looked it. Even before he began his spectacular political career-four terms as Boston's mayor, one term as Massachusetts governor and three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives-Curley had done time for trying to defraud the Civil Service Commission. Now, 72, gaunt with sickness, he was back in jail, this time for using the mails to defraud...
Died. Brigadier General (ret.) Evans Fordyce Carlson, 51, gaunt, battle-scarred onetime commander of "Carlson's (Gung Ho) Raiders," whose exploits as a commander on Makin and Guadalcanal bolstered U.S. morale in World War II's early days, whose penchant for leadership in Communist-fringe organizations dismayed his fellow generals of the U.S. Marine Corps; of a heart attack; in Portland...
...Tall, gaunt Wilhelm Furtwä1;ngler, in his shirtsleeves, rehearsed the orchestra with patience and exactitude. In the first half-hour he had shaped only four bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony to his satisfaction. One-third of the orchestra was new, and he had only two days to rehearse it. He had arrived from Switzerland to find that his annotated scores had disappeared from his Potsdam home. But the concert had been postponed once and the Titania Palast was nearly sold out. He decided to go on with...
...week. The question whether the powerful RFC should be continued beyond its legal deadline of June 30 has revolved chiefly around the way RFC had handled its biggest railroad deal, an $80 million loan to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The issue-and a first-rate ruckus-was raised by gaunt, balding Cassius Marcellus Clay, an ex-official of both RFC and the B. & O. The loan, said he, was part of a "gigantic steal," a "frame-up," and "a fraud...