Word: lank
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...Episcopal Church, at 114th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, was once all white. The southward spread of Harlem has turned it Negro by 300 souls to 50. Much vexed were a group of white vestrymen, led by one Manuel Jesus Roure, who blamed it all upon the rector, a lank, thin-lipped onetime curate of Trinity Church named Rev. Rollin Dodd. The vestry ordered Rector Dodd to cease encouraging the Negroes. When he refused the vestry asked him to resign, stopped his salary. When this failed they had the church closed, "for repairs,'' and the locks changed. Declaring...
...motored to Toronto to see lawyers. A Canadian warrant for his arrest had been issued, he was advised to surrender. At 9:30 p. m. he gave himself up to the Canadian police in the small town of Barrie, Ont. There was a brief hearing before a judge as lank, as gaunt, as curt as he. And then, through a driving rain, he was driven to jail...
...Gosh." Clyde Allen Lee, 24, a lank youth of Oshkosh, Wis., solicited a few hundred dollars from local merchants to help him fly his Stinson monoplane, with Oshkosh B'Gosh painted on its fuselage, nonstop to Oslo, Norway. The scheme fell through. Pilot Lee flew east, got natives of Montpelier and Barre, Vt., to pay to have Oshkosh B'Gosh erased and Green Mountain Boy painted instead. He picked up a mechanic named John Bochkon, a towheaded Norwegian who used to be known as "The Swede" when he was a night watchman at Curtiss-Wright Airport...
...shower" at which she received her first silk nightgown. She has learned that her husband goes into profound abstractions when his mind is thinking out some problem, that he is never to be disturbed at such times. Many a time at 3 a. m. the figure of a tall, lank, stoop-shouldered man can be seen pacing the garden of the Executive Mansion, lost in a meditative world of his own making...
Editor Balmer understood better the royal mind. He had already contracted for a series of articles from that lank Romanov, the Grand Duke Alexander, who has been earning a precarious living in the U. S. by lecturing ladies' clubs on the Better Life. Filled with journalistic zeal, H. I. H. wrote to his editor and suggested that he might go out to Fontainebleau to talk to Alfonso, might persuade his former Majesty to allow a transcript of that conversation to be published. He did. The first instalment of the transcription is on U. S. newsstands this week...