Word: gauntness
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...gaunt young Andrew Jackson Ritchie, back home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northeastern Georgia for the second time because he had run out of money, went back to college for a third, fourth and fifth time. Finally, at 32, he made it, came home to shake under Uncle Rollin's nose a diploma from Harvard, where he graduated in 1899 with Henry James and a heap of other smart...
...press rushed to the fore the gaunt, sourpuss, frock-coated figure of Old Man Prohibition. One cartoon showed him with a dishonorable discharge (1933) in his pocket, squatting under an umbrella in the halls of Congress; the heading said: "Tenting on the old Camp Ground!" (see cut, p. 23). He pointedly reminded Americans of their "noble experiment." To jar further the memories of the forgetful, the New York World-Telegram began reprinting news stories of the 19205. One from Aurora, 111.: "State dry agents today stormed the home of Joseph De King, 40, after bombarding it with gas bombs, killed...
...cluttered chambers of the antique, red brick Smithsonian Institution, history is put to rest-there goes good news when it dies. But last week the Institution's "new" secretary (he has been there only 14 years and is only 70), Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, made live news. The gaunt, grave, full-mustached museum man had had on his mind the matter of Samuel P. Langley v. the Wright Brothers. The world regards Wilbur and Orville Wright as the country's true airplane pioneers, but Langley, onetime Smithsonian secretary, has been the Institution's choice...
Belgian Rutabagas. Often has Belgium been in the path of conquest (Caesar, Wellington, Kaiser Wilhelm, Adolf Hitler). Last week the Belgians were starving again. Gaunt young mothers carried babies doomed to die. Where there was one pre-war tuberculous patient, there were now four. The wide-moated farms of the polders produced food for Germany. For the Belgians there were rutabagas. Said the Swedish Committee for Relief of Belgian Children: "The mortality among children in Belgium is now . . . as bad, if not worse, than in Greece...
...general result is hilarious. The show is built like a house of cards but somehow stays up. Its top scenes are its burlesque-show rehearsals: rusty-voiced Joey Faye and Keenan Wynn (son of Ed) ribbing an old gag routine; Billy Koud as a gaunt, lugubrious director illustrating for the chorines how he wants them to dance; legsome Jean Carter doing an all-out strip tease with an openmouthed rookie drummer way off-beat for her "bumps...