Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world besides getting married. Born & brought up in Yorkshire's West Riding, in the midst of the woolen industry, she joined her passion for story-telling to a lively interest in her surroundings. "As a child I used often to go to my father's mill, lean over the edge of the boiler pit and watch the various processes of cloth manufacture. My father was a man very highly skilled in all textile processes, and famous for this far beyond the walls of his own mill. . . ." Authoress Bentley went to Cheltenham and London for her education, then came...
Next day, with lean, fanatical Minister of Interior Wilhelm Frick at the throttle, the Hitler juggernaut moved to squash flat what remained of the German Socialist Party, most of whose leaders had already fled the Reich. Long before Chancellor Hitler came to power, Nazi Frick as Minister of Culture and Interior in Thuringia made every schoolchild in that State kneel down every day and pray "Oh God. I believe Thou punishest the traitor and blessest the Liberator of our Homeland. Free us from deceit and treason!" Last week Dr. Frick denounced the entire Socialist Party as "treasonable . . . subversive and inimical...
...Yorkers who frequent expensive speakeasies, Dwight Fiske has long been a familiar personality. Lean, hatchet-faced, with hands like carefully manicured claws and a bald-spot on his narrow skull, they have seen him hunched scornfully in front of a grand piano, intoning his unique compositions with an air at once chipper, elegant and insulting. Last winter Dwight Fiske progressed from speakeasies to Manhattan's most elegant café, the Mayfair Yacht Club. Last week two things made it appear that his celebrity- like that of Helen Morgan and Jimmy Durante who preceded him from the orchidaceous gloom...
...Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine one day last week, plump-cheeked little Dean Milo Hudson Gates read from Acts, XVII. Lean little Bishop William T. Manning stood in red vestments by his side. Dean Gates read from the words of another little man, but a great one: bald, homely St. Paul who stood on a rock on Mars Hill in Athens and cried...
Anglican bishops squirmed restlessly one day last fortnight during a Convocation of Canterbury (Church of England meeting) in London. Lean little Dr. Ernest William Barnes, famed "scientific bishop" of Birmingham, was shocking them once more. This time it was with proposals to reduce England's population 10% by sterilizing the unfit and teaching birth control to lower class women. Up jumped Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram of London, to cry that this was "rather off the mark." Suave Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, intervened and changed the subject...