Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exquisite pantomimist whose film career was nearly blighted two years ago by a luckless appearance in Ben Hecht's & Charles MacArthur's haphazard Once in a Blue Moon; Billy House, fleshy Mr. Bones of old-time minstrelsy; addlepated Comedienne Alice Brady; Mischa Auer, well cast as a lean and bony swami. Foster Fathers Savo, Lahr, House and Auer combine their comic efforts in cementing the romance of their theatre-born ward (Joy Hodges) and Scion John King. Since this scheme merely involves hoodwinking Alice Brady it turns out to be not too difficult. Comics Auer and Savo dabble...
...Lean, greying John Alden Carpenter, who has flirted gracefully with jazzy and other folk idioms (The Birthday of The Infanta, Krazy Kat, Skyscrapers, Adventures in a Perambulator), dislikes being called a "businessman-composer." Though he helped carry on the family ship chandler business, Composer Carpenter has been an earnest musician and a musical institution in Chicago for some 25 years. Last week he gave his native city the first big work he had composed since 1933, a Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. His good friend, Zlatko Balokovic, Yugoslav violinist, played the Concerto. A friendly audience applauded. Respectful Chicago critics agreed...
Apparently possessing nine lives, Brookwood survived Labor's lean years. When Depression cut off its subsidy from liberal philanthropists, labor unions kept Brookwood going by providing scholarships for its students. Even when the American Federation of Labor disowned it in 1928 as too "radical" and when five years later Director Abraham J. Muste left it because it was too '"conservative," Brookwood kept on. Young, broad-beamed Tucker P. Smith, a socialist and former executive secretary of the pacifist Committee on Militarism in Education, was brought in as director to restore harmony. He succeeded. By last year...
Liberals, led by aging Associate Justice Brandeis, currently lean toward original cost, but since the case of Smythe v. Ames in 1897 the Supreme Court has steadily upheld the principle of reproduction costs. And the utilities since 1897 have been favored by the reproduction cost theory because prices have been on the rise. But before 1897, when prices were falling, the utilities clamored for the prudent investment basis and were bitterly attacked by the late great Robert Marion La Follette and other progressives of that day for so doing...
...Yale on Saturday made up for it all--the long, lean years, the months of gruelling afternoon work at Soldiers' Field, and the cynicism and the galling smiles that used to be occasioned by the mention of football at Harvard. It was a victory as satisfying as it was deserved, and it was enjoyed by those who sat on the bench the entire afternoon, despite the fact that they had worked just as hard as those who played. For they realized that the coaches owed a greater debt to football at Harvard, than to any individuals personally...