Word: gauntness
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Within, seated, there was silence. The Archbishop of Canterbury rose, 78, gaunt; intoned: "Pater noster . . ."* Before him, on a stand, was a pale green-covered book. This book, said he, was the Alternative Prayer Book, which the bishops of the Church of England recommended be adopted in place of the Book of Common Prayer. English culture had changed considerably since the present prayer book was authorized -in 1662, and a prayer book should be consonant with today's needs. This Alternative Prayer Book was "permissive only." A priest could use the altered prayers, if he pleased and his congregation...
Enthusiastic thousands packed the gallery as five dogs, held worthy of supreme honor, entered the arena. There was Southport Blue Knight, gorgeous collie with flowing coat; Dapple Joe, gaunt, sleek pointer; Morningside Prince, white bull of massive jaw; Little Rajah, mincing Pomeranian; Pinegrade Perfection, waddling Sealyham with luxuriant mustache...
...Duke tennissed and laid a cornerstone, and the Duchess reviewed Girl Guides. Together they attended the theatre amid an ovation. Thence the Renown steamed to Panama, where they were saluted by the Albion, yacht of Earl Fitzwilliam and the Four Winds, yacht of British Vice Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt, retired, who wanders eccentrically about the globe with a captain and crew who are Chinese...
Civic Repertory Theatre, cor. 6th Ave. and 14th St., Eva le Galliene, a good actress but a fine director, sees to it that her repertory, which runs the gaunt of the drama, including farce and tragedy, Ibsen, Shakespeare, and moderns, is given a well rounded performance on an adequately set stage...
Sculptor Harold P. Erskine, of Manhattan, also an habitué of Africa, tendered to the American Museum a bust of his friend, Akeley, gaunt of jaw, shaggy of head with elephant scars on his cheek...