Word: gauntness
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...sentiment and revealed a harried housekeeper with bone-aches and a lounging father, most scornfully scribbling out what she herself called "moral pap for the young," to make ends meet. He showed that she herself read the racy French and Russian novels of her day; that she was gaunt, dowdy, with a deep tinge of cynicism. At the same time, he noted the fact that she was indefatigable; that she sewed up baseballs for the neighborhood urchins; kept Harvard boys out of scrapes; slaved for one and all in kitchen, study, school, hospital. The saccharine type of "the nation...
...never cared for Boston. He was born in Harvard, Neb., lives now in New Hope, Pa., has studied under Chase and Henri, is a member of the National Academy. His picture "Mountebanks and Thieves" depicts U. S. slum life with its gay devil-may-care foreground, and the gaunt bleak tenements, brooding, relentless in the background...
...Ferrari, an odd curmudgeon whose collection was bought by Mr. Hind (textiles). Count Ferrari lived in a castle at 57 Rue de Varennes, Paris, which his mother had willed to the Austrian Embassy in order that her son might live under the Austrian flag. In that gaunt house Von Ferrari kept the only copy of the Boscawen (N. H.) stamp, the Lockport (N. Y.) stamp, and one of the Hawaiian "missionary"* stamps. These Mr. Hind, now admittedly the world's foremost collector, bought for $12,000, $8,500 and $14,500 respectively...
...aboard. For an hour he kept the whole party waiting while he asked questions. What was her name? Her race? Her age? He turned to the stout, red-faced individual beside her. Would he be good enough to state his profession? "Potztausend!" cried Father Ederle, looking hungrily at the gaunt official, "I am a butcher. . . ." He had not, on the long slow trip, behaved like one. As Gertrude Ederle, having splashed through the breakers at Cape Gris Nez, fell into a slow crawl beside the tug, "Pop" Ederle sat on deck, chatting comfortably to Thomas Burgess (trainer), Helmi (Egyptian swimmer...
Mlle. Marie Astrée-Luce de Morfontaine is younger and, owning more shares in the Suez Canal than the Rothschilds, even richer than Miss Grier. Tall and gaunt, she has a Giottesque religious intensity and the emotional experience of a child. Hers is the plan to hold an Ecumenical Council and promulgate the divine right of kings as a dogma of the Church...