Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey, stone-built Edinburgh last week the 70-year-old 7th Duke of Buccleuch wriggled his lean limbs into an archer's uniform of woodland green. So did all the Scottish aristocrats of the Royal Company of Archers, of whom the Duke is Captain-General. They filled their quivers with silver-barbed arrows, stepped into their limousines and rode to Holyrood Palace, there to guard King George and Queen Mary who had come up for Scotland's yearly "drawing room...
...Gomez of the Yankees are indisputably the best pitchers in their leagues. If every seat in the Polo Grounds is sold next week it will be because the crowd wants to see them pitch against each other, as they may do in the next World Series. Giant Hubbell, long lean left-hander who last year pitched 46 consecutive scoreless innings two weeks after he pitched an 18-inning game against St. Louis which the Giants won1-to-0, has been recognized as the National League's No. 1 pitcher for the past three seasons. Last year he was voted...
Secretary of State Cordell Hull made a strong start but he lacked staying power. Thundering down the home stretch of 1934's Open Kudos Championship last week, a professional breasted the tape a clean winner. He was Harvard's lean, long-legged, new President James Bryant Conant, recipient this season of seven honorary degrees. Two strides behind was Amateur Hull, with five degrees. A brilliant finishing sprint put Tyler Dennett, president-elect of Williams, in a triple tie for third place with Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes and Princeton's new President Harold Wrillis Dodds...
...issue with the Senate. All his life he has been a voluble liberal. Senator Dickinson last week quoted to the Senate some Whitmanesque Tugwelliana, written by the young professor when he was 24. It began: I am strong, I am big and well-made, I am muscled and lean and nervous. . . . It ended: I am sick of a nation's stenches I am&ick of propertied Czars. . . . I have dreamed my great dream of their passing, I have gathered my tools and my charts; My plans are fashioned and practical; I shall roll up my sleeves-make America over...
...friend Shaw once helped him out of a financial slough by presenting him with one of the rare copies of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom, telling him to sell it when read. Five years ago Author Graves left England, now lives in Deya, Mallorca with Laura Riding. Tall, lean, black-a-vised, muscular, Robert Graves looks younger than his 38 years...