Word: leanings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...person Graham McNamee is lean, light-haired, with prominent nose and upper teeth. Born in Washington, D. C. in 1889, he grew up to be a semiprofessional baseballer in St. Paul, Minn. Then he found his baritone voice was better than his throwing arm. He was a church soloist in Bronxville, N. Y. where he romantically won his wife with the aid of an elopers' ladder. Called one day for jury duty in Manhattan, he found himself near No. 195 Broadway, then headquarters of WEAF. He walked in, took a voice test, got a job. Fame came quickly...
...begin; he asked the audience to remain seated after the performance. When the curtain rose, a slender, honev-haired girl was discovered at the mercy of international swindlers who coveted a package of letters in her possession. But the swindlers were not to prevail, for soon an amazingly lean, dignified, taciturn gentleman appeared to help the girl. He was Sherlock Holmes, detective. A fantastic seer, he had but to scan the unevenlv shaven cheeks of his friend Dr. Watson to tell him that he had altered the position of his dressing table. Scarcely had he known one lady for five...
...many months the Eastern consolidation struggle has resembled a chess tournament in which a master plays several opponents simultaneously. Shrewd, lean, aggressive William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania is the chess wizard. Three boards confront him. Behind one sits quiet-voiced Patrick Edward Crowley of the New York Central; behind the second sits energetic Daniel Willard of the B. & O.; behind the third sit the chubby brothers Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen. On each of the three Boards a different consolidation game is being played. Last week two bold moves were made on the Van Sweringen board. Master...
After flying to the coast in eight planes, Nevada's lean Wolves did well against Southern California for a period, not so well for another period, then folded up, U. S. C. 66, Nevada...
...greatest backs in contemporary football met at New Haven. Yale's little Albie Booth kicked a field goal, gained 268 yards. Dartmouth's Marsters bridged the field in four passes for one score, threw his big lean body twice through the line and once round end for another, but gained only 94 yards and dropped the ball that gave Yale one of its two freak touchdowns. Hot and hurt (ankle) he left the field early. Booth stayed in, a constant threat, but it was a spry-sprinting substitute called "Hoot" Ellis who made the 80-yard dash that...