Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elected chairman of the Yale Daily News for next year was Sophomore Jonathan Brewster Bingham, 19, youngest of the seven tall lean sons of tall lean Hiram ("Hi") Bingham, Yaleman (1898), onetime Yale Professor, onetime (1924-33) U. S. Senator from Connecticut. Career doings of the other six Bingham sons: Woodbridge, 32, is studying for a Ph. D. in Chinese history at Stanford University. Hiram Jr., 30, one of the U. S. Foreign Service, is at the U. S. Embassy in London. Alfred Mitchell, 29, an attorney, helps publish the pinko fortnightly Common Sense in Manhattan. Charles Tiffany...
...eyes upon the group. They passed over Mrs. Roosevelt; noted standing in the background the man who was his economic instructor at Harvard 30 years ago, Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, more recently adviser to the Bank of England; noted youngish Dean Acheson, retiring Undersecretary of the Treasury, tall, lean and dark; noted a couple of assistant secretaries, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol, the Directress of the Mint, the Chief of the Secret Service, a member of the Federal Reserve Board; noted, also, standing in the background but apart from Dr. Sprague, two other economists...
Last week the staid old Church of England buzzed over the exciting possibility of its first Episcopal trial in 46 years.* Under fire from the Church's Anglo-Catholic wing was Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus David, Lord Bishop of Liverpool, a lean, wavy-haired divine whose fame as a low-churchman is exceeded in England only by that of lean little Dr. Ernest William Barnes, Lord Bishop of Birmingham. Before he became Bishop Dr. David was for twelve years headmaster of Rugby School. Bishop David has not only startled Anglicans by leading his congregation in vigorous hymn-singing...
...Gilmore's Garden, a name applied to the old Harlem Railway Terminal as soon as the tracks were torn out. Dutch White was at that horse show too (he rode a Belmont mount then) and he has been at every horse show since. So has his assistant, lean, wrinkled Eddie Bauchard who trotted round the galleries in 1883 telling the gentlemen that smoking was forbidden. Nowadays he goes the circuit from Florida to Toronto, from horse show to horse show calling horses into the ring. Eddie Bauchard is as familiar to horsemen as Announcer Joe Humphries is to prizefighters...
...More than 175 companies allied to the automobile business had displays. There was a series of automobiles beginning with a steam-driven model of 1863 and ending with a super-streamlined car by Briggs Manufacturing Co. which, lacking running boards, comfortably accommodated three people on its wide front seat. Lean old Henry Ford, who never exhibits his cars with other manufacturers and who took no part in Chicago's Century of Progress, was holding...