Word: lank
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...France. Lank shadows and stocky, the fluttering shadows of dresses, the ridiculous elongated shadows of trousered legs, darted and danced last week all over the reddish scoria of the Roland Garros Stadium courts near Paris. The shadow-casters were most of the ablest tennis amateurs in the world. The French championships in which they were engaged were the first big international matches of the season. Present to display their 1929 form were...
...still tall and lean and lank, but dried and greyed by the years. A widower with six children, he resides in a magnificent marble house just north of the Connecticut Ave. bridge. The family home in Provo has long since stood shuttered and vacant, grass tall in its yard? supposedly a symbol of the Senator's personal sacrifice in public service. His high poke collar with its white linen tie has given way to a lower softer neckdress, but there has been no relaxation in the grim stiff Smoot personality. From his indefatigability has sprung the verb to smoot...
...screen is moved 15 feet nearer the audience, enlarging and slightly blurring the pictures, giving a visual sensation that is like watching the gods at play. Adroitly filmed, from every angle, is The Trail of '98. Then too it contains, in the role of Swedish gold seeker, the laughably lank Karl Dane (famed as Slim in The Big Parade...
...critics and moral encouragement from art societies. Now it has something that will probably attract business. It is a revue that "does" Manhattan, from the yeggs of the Bowery to the shades of Gramercy Park aristocrats. In its course it sings sentimental ballads, burlesques the Gay Nineties in the lank, laughing person of Eleanor Shaler, stops off at a night club long enough to see a vivid, dramatic voodoo dance in silhouette, trails off into close harmonies and ends up about a mile ahead of anything Times Square has confected this midsummer, with the possible exception of Texas Guinan...
...lank, sunburned individual walked down the street. He stooped and had a two-days' growth of beard. He was encased in blue overalls, stitched with white. In one hand he carried a pail half filled with a dark brown paint; in the other a heavy brush. It was Bill Jones going to paint his barn...