Word: leanings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traveler finds that he can get a shade less than two rubles for a dollar. For one ruble he can get a passable table d'hôte dinner. For eight kopecks (four cents), he can ride on a new or renovated tram. If his tastes lean to motoring, British-made busses and an occasional taxi...
...moment the resolution seemed upon the point of passing; the vexed question of "disarmament" was to be shelved again. Then up rose Count Apponyi, that lean Hungarian statesman, a grand seigneur of legend, whose pointed white beard, flaring Roman nostrils, and face of parchment, give him, when he is solemn, the air of an exiled patriarch, and, when he laughs, that of a goat. He swept the conclave with proud and sombre eyes. Twisting a little paper in his hand he began to speak...
...rehearsal or athletic exercise, achieve a grace in waddling; almost none manage to run. In San Francisco a fortnight ago Miss Wanda Danley equaled the female world's record for a 100-yard dash ?11 2/5 seconds. This phenomenal pace could be equaled or eclipsed by almost any lean-shanked prep-school lad who is accounted a runner...
...mining is resumed. The total pay distributed to the 157,400 men was $15,600,000?the largest amount ever disbursed as wages by the industry in one payment, showing how production was speeded in the final fortnight, as the men desired to have extra cash for the coming lean weeks. On every pay check the operators had printed...
Critics who reviewed the play next morning unanimously agreed that the third set was perhaps the most daring ever composed by the lean actor-dramatist. Four times Lacoste stood within a point of victory; four times, with strokes that bit like a fencer's riposte or an epigram by William Wycherly, Tilden beat him back. He took the set 8-6; ran out the match...