Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alighting all smiles, lean Sir John clasped hands with portly Baron von Neurath. "Fine of you to have invited me to your home!" he cried, then recoiled as though slapped when a bristling, black-jacketed S. S. (Special Guard) leader stepped directly in his path, blocked the Englishman with an abrupt salute and bawled...
...abnormally low. Today these "War babies" are ready for battle, but in numbers so reduced that the groups coming up for compulsory military training for the next few years would not suffice to keep the French Army at its current peacetime strength. Therefore, during what Premier Flandin called "these lean years" the conscript term has been lengthened just sufficiently to keep French forces from falling below the post-War norm...
...France's 1935 defense budget of $792,000,000 is the hugest peacetime appropriation in her history. And last week the Chamber of Deputies upped the Army conscript period from 12 to 18 and 24 months for the next five years while the lean "War Baby" classes are being called to the colors...
...Poland, the lean, sponging Rabbi-brother of Russia's roly-poly Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff makes a fairly good thing out of going down to the Bialystok station when "Maxie's" special train is going through to Warsaw, sometimes gets enough money to pay a month's rent, sometimes only one of Maxie's cigars, sometimes a cuffing from Maxie's Red Guards. Last week in Lodz the potent Bolshevik's indigent old sister Ester was shoved into the street by an irate landlord who dumped her furniture on the pavement...
Ever since he shot his $180,000 Bluebird over a measured mile at 272.108 m. p. h. two years ago, lean, hawk-nosed Sir Malcolm Campbell has longed to be the first man to break 300. Back at Daytona Beach last fortnight he made a "test run," reached only 233 m. p. h. when his cowling broke, forced him to stop. Next day he hit 270, decided to await better conditions for a real speed attempt. One afternoon last week fire sirens wailed all over Daytona, brought 50,000 people running to the beach...