Word: gauntness
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John Carradine sounded more & more like his late friend John Barrymore. The gaunt, long-maned Shakespearian was trying to get out of paying alimony to his ex-wife-20% of his gross income. He was getting desperate, he cried in a Los Angeles court, he had even attempted suicide. Asked how, he reported: "Twelve double Scotches." The judge ordered him to go right on paying, and also to pay $8,207.36 in back alimony or go to jail...
...this was highly gratifying to the Religious Drama Society, which has been operating on a shoestring from a one-room London office. Most pleased of all is the man directly responsible: Elliott Martin Browne, 46, the tall, gaunt director of R.D.S. since 1936. It was he who had prodded T. S. Eliot, poet and High Churchman, to write two of the most popular modern religious plays: The Rock and Murder in the Cathedral...
...London gaunt, shy U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant never gave a party unless he had to. He lived in a quiet house in Mayfair and turned his magnificent Morgan-donated Prince's Gate mansion into a dormitory for girl clerks...
...miraculous survival was one of the few signs of comfort the Viennese found in their city. Another was the battered but unbowed survival of the huge community housing projects which Vienna's Socialists had built for their workers in their brief, triumphant decades before Hitler. The gaunt spire in the center of the city and the workers' fortresslike homes on the outskirts (which Catholic Chancellor Dolfuss shelled in the bitter years of civil discord) were both symbols of Vienna's different pasts. They were also symbols of two sturdy European forces, Catholicism and Socialism. From the present...
...conference ended, Harold Laski, whose meddling speeches the past year have embarrassed the Labor Government, turned over the gavel as party chairman for next year to gaunt Philip Noel-Baker. "Others in the National Executive have looked upon me during this year with a combination of malevolence and charity unexampled in modern times," Laski joked. "Comrades, the skeleton now goes back to the cupboard...