Word: lank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sculpture. In Paris, where he all but starved, his critics compared him to Michelangelo. Serene, dynamic and a prodigious worker, stocky Sculptor Barnard admired the great Gothic and Renaissance stone-carvers, amassed the finest collection of Gothic sculpture in the U. S. Stormiest of his stormy projects was his lank, saddened figure of Lincoln, which was refused a place in Westminster Abbey in 1917, relegated to Manchester, England. For the last 20 years he had labored on his greatest dream-a 100-ft. "Rainbow Arch" sculptured with Dantesque choirs of marble figures symbolizing the power of Peace...
...theology which lank, twinkling-eyed, pipe-smoking Karl Barth has been preaching for nearly 20 of his 51 years is not, on its face, adapted to evangelism. Yet Dr. Barth, a dynamic pulpit orator, filled chapels when he taught at the Universities of Münster, Göttingen and Bonn, today fills the chapel at the University of Basle. And his sermons are of the oldtime hour-long variety. Earth's "crisis theology" can best be appreciated by people who believe the Church is complacent, self-assured, temporizing with crucial issues. Earth preaches that God is "wholly other...
...Polo (Samuel Goldwyn). This grotesquely cast Marco Polo skips like a cockleshell over the surface of Marco's famed Munchausenish travel tale, comes at length to a cockleshell's finale. With about as much relish for his task as a small boy's for his homework, lank, ingenuous Actor Gary Cooper dons Marco's 13th-Century raiment, crosses desert, sea & mountain only to find, in a remarkable conception of old Peking, George Barbier dressed up as Kublai Khan. Historically, Kublai Khan was China's strong man, who conquered all of China & ruled more subjects than...
...aired the rumor that Adolf Hitler's middleaged, platonic fancy had turned from red-haired 29-year-old cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl (who in three years as his favorite had risen to ranking Nazi film authority) to 38-year-old Pola Negri (born Appollonia Chalupec), whose round poll and lank black hair once marked her as the No. 1 vamp of the screen. Bogeyman Paul Joseph Goebbels was reported frightening Fraulein Riefenstahl by denouncing her for non-Aryan ancestry (TIME, June 21). The Fuhrer, having searched Pola's title to Aryanism, took special pains to affirm...
...most troublesome children in Tennessee is Mrs. Eunice Winstead Jones, 9. When her marriage last winter to a lank, 23-year-old hillbilly named Charlie Johns provoked a national scandal (TIME, Feb. 15), Tennessee hastily enacted a law prohibiting the marriage of persons under 14. Last week Eunice Johns caused Tennessee to change another law, when in Nashville State Educational Commissioner William Arthur Bass ruled that neither Eunice nor any other "married children" would have to go back to school in the autumn...