Word: gauntness
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...there with $2,000 to open Brookdale Cafeteria, where each customer's check has an IMPORTANT NOTICE: "You may pay what you wish or dine free unless delighted." Hunger has always horrified him since boyhood days when, with his Salvation Army parents, he lived in China and saw gaunt Chinese devouring an oatmeal poultice his father had put on an old man's carbuncle...
...Frederick D. Tyner is a gaunt, 65-year-old Episcopal rector in Minneapolis who looks like Lord Halifax but has a lot more bounce. He has probably done more than any other man alive to combine the activities of golf and religion; he has built St. Luke's Church up from 30 to 1,000 members while cutting his golf handicap down to 8. His "Good Golfers' Dinners" are famed throughout the Northwest, feature screwball debates on such subjects as "RESOLVED, That all bad putting is due to a bad conscience." Now Pastor Tyner also preaches twice weekly...
...Gaunt Amos Richards Eno Pinchot, participator with Brother Gifford in founding the Bull Moose party, father of the late Actress Rosamond (once The Nun in The Miracle), who killed herself in 1938, longtime anti-New Dealer, onetime America Firster, whose 68th birthday fell the day before Pearl Harbor, slashed several veins in one of his arms and was taken to a Westport, Conn, hospital. His condition: critical...
Into the flower-decked room came gaunt Harry Hopkins, his hair freshly trimmed, his blue business suit unwrinkled for the occasion. With him was the Rev. Russell J. Clinchy. In a hall the orchestra began the Lohengrin wedding march, dramatically stopped after the first four chords. Quick-smiling Mrs. Louise Macy entered on the arm of her brother-in-law, Navy Lieutenant Nicholas Ludington. She wore a simple deep-blue frock, with a matching halo hat that trailed a dark, waist-length veil. Her bouquet was purple orchids and delphiniums...
James M. Landis made public last week his second formal report on the thankless job he took over last February-running the Office of Civilian Defense. Six months ago he had been gaunt; now he was haggard. But after those six months of dogged work, in an office which last winter housed the worst of all Washington's administrative messes, he could report some accomplishments. OCD was now functioning up to the full measure of its authority, advising State and city defense councils how to combat gas, destruction, fire, panic, and giving them the necessary material...