Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with this sad spirit that the Vagabond muses this morning. He is very sensitive to his friends' pleasure; he would lean over backwards to hold those with whom in past years he journeyed so well and found so many treasures. And the Vagabond will take travels in every realm of adventure. But sadness draws us within ourselves and this morning the Vagabond cannot help thinking of his wounds...
...year he was admitted to the Tennessee bar, lean, virile William Gibbs McAdoo, 22, married Sarah Houstoun Fleming of Chattanooga. She bore him six children, saw him grow rich & famed, died in 1912. Next year Mr. McAdoo became Woodrow Wilson's first Secretary of the Treasury and, somewhat hopelessly because he was already a grandfather and twice her age, began courting the youngest of the President's three daughters. On a bench near the foot of the Washington Monument one December evening he plucked up courage, proposed, was accepted. Secretary McAdoo, 50, and Eleanor Randolph Wilson, 24, were...
...lives of great men do not end with the grave. They just begin. This place marks not the resting place of Huey P. Long, it marks only the burial ground for his body. His spirit shall never rest as long as hungry bodies cry for food, as long as lean human frames stand naked, as long as homeless wretches haunt this land of plenty." It ended: ''His unlimited talents invariably aroused the jealousies of those inferiors who posed as his equals. He was the Stradivarius, whose notes rose in competition with jealous drums, envious tomtoms. His was the unfinished symphony...
Emperor Power of Trinity sat drawnfaced with his two pet dogs frisking about his feet as Fat Chaps & Lean Chaps concluded their work and Ethiopia's elaborate Seal of The Conquering Lion of Judah was affixed in token of His Majesty's assent. What had he done? It all depended on who Fat Chaps' backers really are. Every undeveloped country is fair game for plausible promoters who go about hinting that they represent du Pont, or De Beers or Krupp. Last week Francis M. Rickett said that his backers were Standard Oil and British capitalists whom...
...participate in aspects of Bedouin life closed to most foreigners. He lived with the Ruala as one of them, visited them eleven times in the next 22 years, hunted and raided with them, was eventually adopted into the tribe as a chieftain. Black Tents of Arabia consists of 28 lean chapters of reminiscences that give the impression of having been carefully selected from a great storehouse of similar memories. Essentially the work of a man of action-the author dismisses in two paragraphs his experiences in the Turkish Army, an attack of typhus, work in Russian prison camps, revolution...