Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each wretched shack and shanty, veterans by the thousands trudged off into the night. Some carried their belongings wrapped in bundles on their backs. One drunk went lurching away bearing only a large oil lamp. A few sang old War songs. Women carried babies in their arms. Huts and lean-tos were set afire, partly by the departing veterans, partly by the soldiers. By midnight Bonus City, once the home of 10,000 jobless hungry men & women, was a field of roaring bonfires. President Hoover could see its fiery glow on the Eastern sky from his White House window...
...outgrowth of the defunct Collegiate World, College Humor began in 1921 as a quarterly, the staff & equipment consisting chiefly of Publisher Lansinger, shears and pastepot. It was merely a scrapbook of cartoons and jokes from U. S. under graduate funny-books. In 1923 long, lean, curly-headed "Swanie" Swanson, fresh out of Grinnell College where he edited the Malteaser, got a job as Mr. Lansinger's secretary. He worked up to the editorship, was largely responsible for the editorial polish which College Humor later acquired as a monthly magazine of original fiction, articles, drawings, interspersed with clippings from the campus...
Supported by Italy, Germany and Russia but outmaneuvered by Britain and France, lean, nervous U. S. Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson abandoned last week his efforts to secure acceptance by the Geneva Conference of President Hoover's resounding One-Third-Armament-Reduction proposal (TIME, July...
...representing 430,000,000 people out of the total Empire population of 450,-000,000. The No. 1 delegation is headed by Lord President of the Council the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Leader of the Conservative (majority) Party in Great Britain. With benign, bumbling, pipe-puffing Mr. Baldwin came lean, hawk-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain; dignified President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman whose batwing tie is always straight; undignified Minister of Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas who drops his h's; other delegates, secretaries, stenographers to the number of 130. Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald...
...summoned, found Mrs. Barney, whose husband is a U. S. radio crooner, anxiously kissing Stephen's cooling corpse. A revolver lay nearby. While Mrs. Barney awaited trial her father. Sir John Mullens, was reported to be liquidating the Mullens gems to raise the huge fee of her defender, lean Sir Patrick Hastings, the Clarence Darrow of Great Britain. Last week Sir Patrick was in fine fettle. After witnesses had testified to Mrs. Barney's love for Stephen, and she had explained that the revolver went off while he was trying to keep her from shooting herself, Sir Patrick...