Word: gauntness
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Such was the music once to be heard in a certain house on a certain street in Chicago. The man that made it, a gaunt fellow with a nervous manner, very fond of practical jokes, used to sit up in bed late at night and early in the morning, writing, reciting and writing more. Of an afternoon he would go down to a newspaper office (The Record) where he was employed and have the poems put into type...
None the less, Wynken, Blynken and Nod and another lullaby, Little Boy Blue, were poetic masterpieces. And Eugene Field, the gaunt man who wrote them, put such a lyric fluency into whatever he wrote that he became known as "the children's laureate." He is best remembered as that today. No grown-up wishing to be popular with children allows himself to forget the words...
Died. Lucien S. Hanks, 87, pioneer banker of Madison, Wis., famed because of his much bruited assertion that Abraham Lincoln once kicked him out of a bed (at the home of William Talman in Janesville, Wis.) in which they had attempted to sleep. Mr. Hanks often said: "That long, gaunt man was so nervous that he twitched and tossed and kicked and snored until, in desperation, I went out into the hall and made a bed on the floor, where I slept the rest of the night...
From the depths of the U-19 a collapsible canvas rowboat was produced. The tall gaunt man and two Irish companions stepped into it and commenced to row ashore. The commander of the submarine called after them, "Sir Roger Casement! Is there nothing more that you require...
...Harris, the lines deeper than ever in his sulky, sagging face, smashed a single along the ground to left field and brought in the run that won the game. Had it not been for a catch in the next inning that run might not have counted for so much. Gaunt Sam Rice caught a Pittsburgh fly that would surely have been a home run. Pressed against the right field fence he saw it over his shoulder and reached up. Pittsburgh players declared that it was impossible-a spectator must have caught it and tossed it down to Rice-but Umpire...