Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because he is the brother-in-law of Leon Trotsky, is the name of lean, neat-bearded, introspective Comrade Leo Kamenev, onetime Chairman (Speaker) of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (Soviet Congress). In 1927 Comrade Kamenev, like his friend Zinoviev, was kicked out of the Party, repented, was reinstated. Last week Kamenev (né Rosenfeld) and Zinoviev (né Radomyslski) were each 49. They were charged not with having written, printed, distributed or inspired the anti-Stalin manifesto but merely with having known of its existence without immediately reporting it to the Dictator...
...slouch in your chair or lean against anything...
...Freshman summary: Score: New Hampshire 24; Harvard 32. Time: 18.51. Winner; R. S. Playfair '36, Webster (NH), MacLean (NH), Tinker (NH), J. R. O'Neill '36, Mathews (NH), L. H. Orr '36, D. Gratwick '36, Marlak (NH), Thompson (NH), L. C. Lean '36, T. L. Day '36, E. W. Dalton '36, Spear (NH), Greene (NH), McNally (NH), R. M. Peet '36, A. M. Josephy '36, E. T. Farley '36, Chase...
Britain's long, lean Labor worm turned decisively last week. Over their kippers, toast and China tea bloated stockbrokers and belted earls read in their Tory Daily Telegraph this horrid news: "In three days organized British Labor has undergone a swift, violent transition from nonrevolutionary to revolutionary policy...
Second Game was a well-pitched battle between 23-year-old Lon Warneke of the Cubs, who won more games (22) in his first big league season than any other National League pitcher, and 22-year-old Vernon ("Goofy") Gomez, tall, lean, left-handed Yankee, who comes from Rodeo, Calif. Chicago got one run in the first, the Yankees two. When his teammates had tied the score in the third, Warneke walked Ruth and let Gehrig single. Then, to fill the bases for a force play, he walked Dickey. It was sound strategy but it did not work. Chapman, next...