Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conviction that faculty believers in "new liberal principles" in student discipline should explain to the parents of their students exactly what they meant. The preposterous stories you mentioned in your interesting article as having been associated recently with Dean Nardin-that she told girls they should not lean over to drink at water fountains: that they should not "arouse" male students by wearing red dresses or clocked stockings or puckering their red lips-were first raked together in a collection of campus legends in an anonymous fictionized attack on deans of women in general more than two years...
...plane along to the limit of his own endurance, sleeping an average of two hours each night. Night before he had taken off from Rome into a dirty sky, floundered through fog and storm over the Alps and landed three hours ago at Le Bourget-where he had to lean against his ship to keep from toppling before interviewers. Now he was in England two days ahead of the speed record set by his good friend Lieut. Charles W. A. Scott, Royal Air Force boxer (TIME, June 15) in the same type of plane. After a hurried luncheon at Pevensey...
...ribald advice of brother officers flew about the head of lean, lugubrious Lieut.-Commander Zeno W. Wicks, U. S. N. resigned, as he contemplated the habits of pigeons in Akron last week. The birds were to be used this week in the christening ceremonies of the Navy's huge new dirigible Akron, of which Commander Wicks is construction superintendent. It was his hope that the pigeons would flutter gaily out through the orange-peel doors of the dock and streak for home when Mrs. Herbert Hoover set them free. Hence the suggestions of the Akron's officers...
...finding out the surprises. The Empress Eugénie hat was still there, low-crowned, point-brimmed, fitting the head like a piece of orange peel with curled edges. It flourished a provocative ostrich feather. Ostrich farmers on the French Riviera, in California, Egypt and Algeria, bemoaning the seven lean years since hats were last plumed, hoped the feathers in Paris would prove more than a whim...
...Adams is considered something of a character. She is supposed to have inherited a considerable fortune from her husband, George L. Adams, a tanner. She owns several automobiles, yet is frequently seen walking the nine miles between Tannersville and Stroudsburg, or hailing motorists for a lift. Tall and lean, she dresses plainly, wears cotton stockings. She plays the piano with exceptional skill, is locally famed as a china-painter. During the War she was under surveillance as a pro-German, suspected of being a distant relative of General Erich Ludendorff...