Word: lank
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...youngsters have heard of Tobias Matthay, but many have cause to thank him. Lank, long-jawed, white-maned "Uncle Tobs" is the man who took the drudgery out of piano lessons. He now lives in the English countryside, nearing 84. In Manhattan last week 50 teacher-members of the American Matthay Association met to discuss Matthay-style teaching...
Brigadier General Alexander D. Surles, lank, hook-nosed Chief of Army's Press Relations Section, addressed an audience of 50 Washington correspondents, called to an emergency meeting a few hours after announcement of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The subject was censorship...
...House, Texas' Sam M. Russell, lank and rawboned, making his first full-dress speech, rose to accuse Lewis of treason, added: "Surely common sense dictates that we can't allow dictator-minded individuals ... to stifle the very breath of our vital industries. ... I feel that now-not next year . . . but now. we should prepare to deal drastically with such men as John Lewis." Virginia's tall, dour-faced Howard Worth Smith summoned some 30 fellow Democrats to his office. They arrived with stealth, dripping with fury, to debate how they might push through Congress...
...lank, dour fellow, with a face like a withered apricot, a sandy-grey pompadour, and a thundering disdain for anything Republican, Representative Ford is one of the shortest-tempered men in the House. He has been a 1,000% New Dealer ever since he came to Congress in 1933, after ten years of editing the literary page of the anti-New Deal Los Angeles Times...
...Cairo, lank, balding metaphorist Captain James Roosevelt described the situation in Iraq as "well in hand, but rather deep-seated...