Word: lank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lank Sir John Simon, his lawyer's wig slightly askew with the vehemence of his summation, faced ten men and two women in the jury box at Old Bailey last week. Said...
With the House Plan, Harvard will perpetuate itself, reckoning little of the future. But the fathers have eaten wild grapes and the children's teeth will be set on edge. Why hope to spare the impending day of athletics for all, and the lank limbs that follow in its tread? No, the hope of the world must be in the women. And even that is an much a case of vanity as of hope. It is really about as broad as it is long. One can only sit by, and muse on hippology...
Faculty. An amiable president is Duke's Dr. William Preston Few. Tall, lank, Vandyke-bearded, he waves cheerily to one & all as he strolls about his campus. Once an English professor, he became president of Trinity College in 1910. His campus nickname: "Sis." His fellow townsmen remember that when the children of Benjamin Newton Duke were young?Mary, and "Angy" (Angier), who fell from a yacht tender at Newport in 1923 and was drowned?Dr. Few used to ride with them in their ponycart. Like many another Duke official, he is a Rotarian. A friend of North Carolina's hard...
...chore was royal, and it was the third which President Doumergue has had to do in as many weeks. First Spain's King Alfonso XIII came to say goodbye, then Albert King of the Belgians, and now Sweden's lank Gustaf V was at the door. All these kings no doubt meant well, but in their gracious goodbyes lurked an unintended sting, as though they said...
...business-school classmate of young Partner Webster was lank Albert H. Gordon. After graduation he went to work for Goldman, Sachs & Co. He was named last week as the third partner of reorganized, revitalized Kidder, Peabody...