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Word: leanness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision had fallen to him because two high-born women were at war over the girl's custody. One was sleek, brittle Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, 29. the child's mother. The other was the child's aunt, lean-faced, determined Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, born Gertrude Vanderbilt 57 years ago. For two years Mrs. Whitney had kept her late brother's only daughter on her 3,000-acre estate at Old Westbury, L. I. while his widow occupied herself in smart European resorts. Last September, settled in a house in Manhattan, Mrs. Vanderbilt had little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Socialites' Solomon | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...Burgoomaster" Looney's recipe for 1,000 pal. of burgoo: 800 lb. lean beef with no bones; 200 lb. fat hens; 900 lb. canned tomatoes; 240 lb. canned carrots; 180 lb. canned corn; 200 lb. cabbage; 60 lb. salt; 4 lb. pepper; "my own seasoning." Cook 18 to 20 hr. in iron kettle out of doors over a wood fire. "It is thicker than soup and has a flavor from the open air you can't describe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Burgoo & Boom | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...lean, ebullient girl with a long, inquisitive nose and an assertive chin. Born in Canada, educated in California, naturalized a U. S. citizen, she has studied the violin for four years in Germany. With her German-born mother and younger sister, she has roamed the fringes of Berlin's international society, having a lovely time, not in the least shy of discussing her opinions of Nazi Germany with all comers. She wrote little articles and translations for a few German papers voicing what she called "honest criticism about this or that." She dashed off long chatty letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Steele Case | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

Other guests there were, including Postmaster General Farley, President Merlin Hall Aylesworth of National Broadcasting, Dirigibilist Hugo Eckener and a few of Mr. Boomer's fellow Manhattan hotelkeepers. But the majority were European hotelmen who bore tales of lean years and no profits. There were a few notable exceptions, who reported good business, but the general tenor of the conference was so sad that most meetings were closed to the Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hotels of the World | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...women with the exception of Gertrude Stein. Tact and complacency have long been woman's attributes, and I think they prove a drawback to good reading. They do not write simply or violently enough for my taste. I should like my prose to be lucid, direct and lean." Other books: Plagued by the Nightingale; Year Before Last; Gentlemen, I Address You Privately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neo-Romantic | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

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