Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With little enthusiasm two hard-shelled reporters went down New York Harbor last week to meet the incoming Swedish American Gripsholm. One was stocky, red-faced James ("Jimmie") Lanehart of the New York Journal, the other tall, lean David ("Dave") Davidson of the New York Post. Bored with what seemed to be routine assignments, they first sought out Swedish Admiral Fabian Tamm, listened politely while he claimed that his was a peaceful nation. From peaceful Admiral Tamm they went to Gertrud Wettergren, sleek, dark-haired Swedish contralto who is shortly to make her debut at the Metropolitan Opera. Mme Wettergren...
...Massey, have been given no easy task in making Pride and Prejudice march. An extravagant admirer of Jane Austen's quiet, domestic observations was Sir Walter Scott, who declared: "I can do the big bowwow myself: but the exquisite touch ... is denied to me." Most 20th Century playgoers lean toward the big bowwow. Accordingly, they might reasonably be expected to yawn at characters whose menfolk's tights and neckwear make them look like bullfrogs about to spring, whose every silly sentence twists toward rarefied romance, and who employ three acts and much superfluous palaver in the basically simple...
Puzzled but persistent, a few elderly architects who still believed in tradition went to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week to listen to the first U. S. lecture of a lean, excitable Swiss in gaudy tweeds and enormously thick horn-rimmed spectacles. The lecturer's name was Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. The traditionalists were outnumbered three to one by excited modernists" and lion-hunting socialites, because M. Jeanneret, 47, better known under his professional name of Le Corbusier, has had more effect than any living man on the development of modern architecture, and has become the patron...
...musicians ever had such a determined taskmaster as the lean, satanic-looking Austrian who has been the Wagner specialist at the Metropolitan since German opera was revived after the War. Last week Bodanzky admitted that Wagner operas sometimes bored him. "But, mind you, only when I think of them. . . . The minute I take up my stick in the opera house I become transported...
Aiken's central character is a decidedly different creation. He looks at himself in the mirror, admiring his lean, dark face, his masterful eyes. He sneaks into his friends' dwellings when they are not there and furtively reads diaries and personal mail. He leans out of the window of his apartment on Plympton Street and wants to kill an editor of the Crimson who is unobtrusively sunning himself on the roof. He artfully spins webs of deception around his acquaintances, lets them in part-way on his secret, laughs at their wholly average protestations...