Word: gauntness
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...British and American seamen the towering, gaunt Ambassador from Britain, Lord Halifax, played host at the embassy, rallied around a piano, hoisting a glass, with a good song ringing clear...
...harassed Raj, the action was belatedly graceful and politically wise. For the Congress it was a great moral victory. Bhansali drank a glass of msambi juice to break his fast. Crowds of Hindus garlanded his gaunt neck with flowers...
...secret meetings had been held at the White House to plan a tremendous expansion in worldwide air routes, try to iron out some of the grave questions which have U.S. airline operators in a tailspin. Besides President Roosevelt the conferees included members of the Pacific War Council (with tall, gaunt Lord Halifax representing Britain), top-drawer officials from the State Department and the Army-Navy air-cargo divisions, a handful of U.S. airline operators, headed by smart, suave Pan American Airways President Juan Trippe...
Snooping, he learns that the cargo is a good hundred torpedoes, enough mines to drive a hole through the seabottom. The Gaunt Woman is a U-boat supply ship, "the bitch at whose dugs they must feed or starve." With the aid of Conrad and Margaret MacLean ("a strapping girl, done up in seagoing style"), Bannon sets about forcing the devils to eat their own brimstone. He succeeds in making the Gaunt Woman one gigantic time bomb for the ruin of her U-boat offspring. As she blows, Bannon lifts "his clenched hands in a gesture of malediction," says...
When Edmund Gilligan is at his best, as in White Sails Crowding, he is one of few men living who can galvanize the dying art of literate romancing. But in The Gaunt Woman his Hibernian lilt and lustiness often overshoot the mark. Like most Irish storytellers, he must beware of riding with his Erse too high...