Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's retiring President Lowell tried to curb young John Haven Emerson last year. "Stop making respirators," said President Lowell in effect. "I will like hell!" roared young Emerson, long, lean son of long, lean Public Health Man Dr. Haven Emerson of Manhattan, and strode out of the presidential mansion. He loaded a respirator on the rear end of his rebuilt Buick, and with his wife went peddling respirators in competition with Harvard's long, lean Professor Philip Drinker. Professor Drinker, through Warren E. Collins Inc., the cautious Boston manufacturers to whom he assigned patents on the respirator...
Waiting for red-haired Cinemactress Clara Bow as she returned to Manhattan from Europe with her husband Rex Bell was "Pinkie," her pet white mouse, airmailed from Hollywood. To newshawks Miss Bow gave her formula for marital happiness: "Never go to sleep with a kick on your mind. Just lean over and say: 'I'm sorry, dear...
...William Tatem Tilden II: a "farewell" tennis match in Manhattan against German Hans Nusslein, No. 2 man of the Tilden troupe: 6-3, 6-2. By "farewell," long, lean Tilden, theatrical as ever, meant it was his last match in Manhattan-at least until after another tour of the U. S. and a tour of Europe, starting June...
Though you should lean above me brokenhearted, I shall not care...
...locomotives must be equipped with power reversers. Of the 55,000 locomotives in the land (of which 9,000 were in need of repair last week), half still have hand reverse gears. The I. C. C. order means that about $10,000,000 will be transferred out of the lean pockets of the railways into the lean pockets of the equipment companies...