Word: leanings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like a dying lady, lean and pale...
...Prohibition. It is the theory of the New York Times, which is strong for Smith, that if he were elected "he would enforce the Volstead Act more effectively than the present Administration"--apparently on the theory that, as an honest man, he would lean over backward to enforce what he does not believe in. On the other hand, is the theory of the Ku Klux Klan that Smith would open a bar at every corner. Possibly a more realistic theory than either of these predictions is that the Volstead Act, for Congress, has ceased to be a cause...
...stress the foxlike guile of Mlle. Roseray's press-agent who had fooled all the clever reporters. The witty, wisecracking Walter Winchell, columnist to the pornoGraphic, gumchewers' sheetlet, alone had the grace, in this second and even less justified burst of free advertising, to praise that rakish, lean and sporting sheet, the New York Telegraph; its reporter had entirely disregarded the melodramatic antics of poor Mlle. Roseray...
...silver Cito von der Marktfeste, a German shepherd, strode into the ring like a buccaneer. He was tall at the shoulder, his tail swung behind him like a curved scimitar in a tasselled scabbard, his mouth curled with an ironic courtesy. He regarded the spectators with complete composure, his lean face masking carefully but not completely its sneer. Intimidated by his arrogance, the women who sat nearest the ring applauded its proud and villainous visitor...
...Lampoon in his customary mood of funmaking, the content of the paper is harmlessness itself. If there be any who are not acquainted with the traditional undergraduate attitude, they may be shocked to find the Lampoon, far from grateful for the manna let fall by heaven in the lean weeks between Christmas and Saint Patrick's Day, snarling at the generous hand. The consequences of such misinterpretation would not, however, be great. The only possible tragedy resulting would be that of one who took seriously what is clearly humor...