Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Composer Hamilton Forrest first went to see Mary Garden he was a lean, wild-eyed youth who, in order to continue his musical studies, had been working as office boy in Mr. Insull's Commonwealth Edison Co. He showed Miss Garden an opera the libretto of which she, theatrer wise, pronounced impossible. But she recognized instantly Forrest's genius for music, told him to find another libretto, a lovestory, and try again. Camille came to his mind because he knew of a similar tragedy which involved two students in a Chicago shorthand school. "But Camille," Mary Garden...
Other prophets heard during the week were bullish. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., lean president of General Motors Corp. said: "I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year." Iron Age (75 years old last week) reported a "change of sentiment in the steel industry." The first quarter of 1931 was seen as the likely end of the decline in business by Harvard Economic Society...
Because grim, humorless Senator William Henry ("Mac") McMaster, insurgent Republican up for reelection, loves the Hoover Administration no more than does lean-faced, witty Governor William John Bulow, his Democratic senatorial opponent, South Dakota this year is a political battlefield practically barren of national issues. However Nominee Bulow's blunt comedy-Will Rogers once called him "funnier than I am"-has saved their campaign from stagnation. Last week he declared: "They ain't any great issues out here, I guess. Mac's got a job and I want it." Nominee Bulow is famed for his tobacco chewing...
...editorship of Life has passed most unobtrusively (no editorial massed-head has been printed for 21 weeks) to lean, black-moustached Bolton Mallory, onetime reporter, advertising man, instructor of English at Princeton University. Editor Mallory succeeds famed Norman Hume Anthony, who, with Phil Rosa (who assisted him when he was editor of Judge, went with him to Life) departed four months ago. Editor Mallory strives to make Life less "funny," smarter, of greater topical interest...
Driving through Virginia to his Rapidan camp for the weekend, President Hoover saw for himself pastures toasted brown, corn drooping dead on the stalk, lean kine herded miles to water. At his camp he discussed relief plans with Secretary of Agriculture Hyde and Vice Chairman James C. Stone of the Federal Farm Board...