Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmers. His father was a Canadian Supreme Court Justice, his mother's father a Quebec Lieutenant Governor. His family gave the Catholic Church a cardinal, and Premier Taschereau, like France's great 17th Century Cardinal Richelieu, has prodigious habits of work, a suave and barbed wit, a lean, aristocratic grey face, an iron will. Nevertheless, last week he paid a stiff price for the fatty degeneration 39 years of power had brought to Quebec Liberals...
...running two miles around a soggy cinder track in Princeton's Palmer Stadium, a lean, barrel-chested young man from Auburn, Ind. last week made himself the most talked about athlete in the U. S. The young man was Donald Ray Lash, 22-year-old junior at Indiana University. What made the feat remarkable was the time it took him to accomplish...
...Francisco's grim Alcatraz Prison paunchy Convict Al Capone called lean Convict Harmon Waley, kidnapper of little George Weyerhaeuser, a "baby-snatcher." Offended, Convict Waley hit the first U. S. Public Enemy No. 1 on the jaw, knocked him down...
With an old-fashioned phonograph strapped on his back, a sawed-off megaphone and a bundle of blank aluminum records, a lean, scraggly-haired New Yorker has been touring the South for the past nine years, collecting Negro songs that few white men have ever heard. Like his older brother Artist Hugo Gellert, Collector Lawrence Gellert is an ardent Left Winger. He scorns the idea that most Negroes when left to themselves will either sing spirituals or dance to the blues. The songs that fascinated Lawrence Gellert were those symbolic of Negro class consciousness, unrest and despair. From more than...
...Lawd make you po' an' lean De sorries' sight ah eber seen...