Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lean, grey-thatched, soft-spoken Moses Annenberg, 58, has seven daughters so attractive that all have been married at one time or another. His one son Walter he is training to be a publisher. Moe Annenberg says he would not give a dollar for all the Old Masters in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Annenberg place at Great Neck, L. L, once the estate of Actor George M. Cohan, teems with in-laws and grandchildren, is "like an old-fashioned Milwaukee home." In his office. Mr. Annenberg smokes cork-tipped Pall Mall cigarets from a loose pile...
Last week, on the 75th anniversary of the battle which the South calls First Manassas and the North calls First Bull Run, a Stonewall Jackson again rode the field at Manassas. He was lean, Kentucky-born Major Stonewall Jackson of the 12th U. S. Infantry, no kin to his famed namesake, commanding a "Confederate" force of 1,000 Army men and R.O.T.C. boys in a re-enactment of one of the South's proudest battles. A thousand Marines from Quantico, in special blue fatigue uniforms, took the part of Union troops...
Renomination, It took a whole day and most of one night to renominate Franklin Roosevelt. As in 1932 in Chicago, New York's lean, dry Judge John E. Mack, Roosevelt neighbor and onetime State Supreme Court Justice, plowed dutifully through a long, flowery speech ending up with: "I give you as your candidate for President, no longer a citizen merely of one state, but a son of all the 48 states, Franklin D. Roosevelt!" At that traditional signal all hell broke loose on the convention floor. Delegates danced and pranced, whooped and hollered, marched and capered in a mighty...
Throughout the land last week, colleges named the faculties who would sit in summer session to teach earnest graduate students, roll up needed credits for delinquent undergraduates. As always, most were winter facultymen eager to pad out lean budgets by a warm month's work. A few, however, were notable pinch hitters called in from the world outside...
...first but the most conscientious angel of U. S. education, shy, grey-haired, lean-faced Edward Stephen Harkness has given to schools and colleges almost half of the $100,000,000 which he has taken an earnest lifetime to distribute. Son and heir of Rockefeller Partner Stephen Harkness, he paid the nation's sixth highest income tax in 1926, that year inherited the estate of his mother, whose taxes ranked eighth, has since nursed both legacies dutifully. Determined to make philanthropy a life work, he installed himself in a homelike office on Manhattan's Madison Avenue. There...