Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after day in the Diet both lean, rheumatic War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi and burly, big-fisted Navy Minister Mineo Osumi hammered away at the thesis that no matter what happens, no matter how remote the danger of war, Japanese Deputies must vote nearly half of the Empire's revenue to the fighting services, now and for an indefinite period hereafter. Pounding with his small fist, War Minister Hayashi cried: "The Army has no intention of stopping now in Manchukuo!" Pounding with his large fist, Navy Minister Osumi boomed: "We have no intention of embarking on a naval race...
Last week there was no school in Pompey Hollow. Pert, pretty Esther De Lee, who used to teach in the little upstate New York hamlet, was staring defiantly across a courtroom in nearby Syracuse. Glowering back at her was James N. Armstrong, Pompey Hollow's lean, sallow school trustee. Every one of Pompey Hollow's twelve schoolchildren was in the courtroom. So too were their parents, their parents' friends, Miss De Lee's friends and Mr. Armstrong's friends...
...Francisco taxi, lean, sepulchral Samuel Morgan Shortridge, 73, onetime (1921-33) U. S. Senator from California, paled and slumped in his seat. The taximan sped his unconscious fare to a hospital. There physicians examined him, shook their heads. They had just issued a bulletin stating that he had collapsed from a heart attack and had not long to live when the ex-Senator's doctor rushed in, re-examined him. Cried the doctor: "He's hungry. He just had his teeth pulled and he's not been able to chew his food." Fed, Mr. Shortridge quickly recovered...
...brutes. His first real commercial success, One More Spring, followed the fortunes of a group of indigent outcasts who sought shelter in a street cleaner's tool shed in Central Park. Still in the realm of fantasy, this rueful little fable cut close enough to the essence of lean-year reality to please those who detest animals that behave like humans...
Once called by his friends "the Jewish Hamlet," because of his lean, ascetic face, Mr. Nathan now boasts a growing waistline that causes him to toy with the idea of substituting sailing for such strenuous pastimes as fencing and tennis. He will no longer play the cello, for his professional cellist wife, Nancy Wilson, makes him embarrassed about his inferior skill...