Word: lank
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...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...
...life and passion of Christ, enacted for the 15th consecutive season by the Pilgrimage Players whose audience in turn could dimly hear the Bowl concert. Most conspicuously attentive of the Bowl audience was Actress Ann Harding who from her seat up front never took her eyes off the lank, gloomy-looking young man who conducted all five scores from memory. When, at the end of Scenes Historiques, the audience called Janssen back nine times, she looked as pleased as he. Since the two were married in a London registrar's office (TIME, Jan. 25) they have been inseparable. Miss...
...profited from the $5,000,000,000 evaporation of U. S. investment trust assets between 1929 and 1936, the Securities & Exchange Commission's Inquisitor David Schenker last week turned his attention to a notable loser. Up to the witness stand in Washington's SEC building stepped tall, lank Vice President Charles Franklin ("Boss") Kettermg of General Motors Corp...
...rumors of his long-haired, dandiacal appearance, his likeness to Gilbert & Sullivan's flower-devour-ing Bunthorne, had preceded him. Newshawks delightedly reported his first wisecrack, when he said to the customs inspector: "I have nothing to declare but my genius." Ace Photographer Sarony posed him in his lank locks, fur-trimmed coat and velvet knee-breeches. Society's biggest fish held aloof, but smaller fry came flocking. Skeptical Broadwayites made the first of several pseudo-hospitable attempts to drink Oscar under the table- in vain. Columnists and cartoonists ribbed him unmercifully. But his first lecture...