Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortridge v. Tubbs. Whoever wins the Democratic primary must in November go up against a Republican Senatorial nominee also to be chosen next week. Long, lean, sepulchral Samuel Shortridge is fighting harder than ever before to hold his Senate seat. Arrayed against him in the Republican primary are "Bob" Shuler (see above), flossy little Representative Joe Crail of Los Angeles and Tallant Tubbs, a rich, chubby young State Senator from San Francisco. Senator Shortridge lately deserted his President and his platform by declaring against the World Court. This flipflop won him favor with the Hearst Press, but cost...
Omniscient Senator. That Democrat McAdoo, given a Roosevelt victory in November, would be back in Washington, either in the Senate or out, was an opinion widely held by competent political observers last week. The spectacle of his lean, leathery six-foot-one in the Senate Chamber would be enough by itself to excite headlines. His insistent cackling voice would carry to the Press gallery and beyond...
...rank & file. Almost overnight an encampment of some 8.000 men, women & children sprang up in an amusement park on the outskirts of town. It teemed with filth and flies. There was little or no food. One good storm would have devastated its pup tents, lean-tos and bough huts. As a camp, it made the Anacostia bivouac look like a regular Army post. Mayor McCloskey realized he and his city were in a serious predicament...
...England who was given fourth place until an electro-photograph of the finish proved that he was third, was a step behind Percy Beard, Alabama Tech instructor whose scissor legs usually make up over the jumps what speed they lack on the flat. Even University of Iowa's lean George Saling had kicked over one hurdle, the last, when it was too late for Beard and Keller, who had fought for the lead through the first 100 metres, to catch him. If he had cleared the tenth barrier, Saling's time? 14.6 sec.?would have tied the Olympic record...
...with Dallas Employers' Casualty Co. which sponsors a girls' basketball team called the Golden Cyclones. Cyclone Didrikson began to take an interest in track & field athletics. At the A. A. U. championships for women last month she won five championships, tied for another. Last week, lean, vehement, 21-year-old Babe Didrikson was hungrily contemplating further activities. Said she: "I expect our basketball team . . . to win the national championship. I'll be the high scorer. . . . My mind is set on winning a national golf championship. . . . I can outdrive most women golfers now. . . . I like all sports because I enjoy running...