Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forces beyond his control. The Smith faction, captained by Jersey City's hardboiled Frank Hague and backed by Tammany Hall, was relentlessly bitter in its opposition. Mayor Hague had attacked Governor Roosevelt as the "weakest man" to nominate. The California and Texas forces of Speaker Garner, led by lean, leathery William Gibbs McAdoo, had lined up with the Brown Derby on every convention vote so far. The minor candidates had stood their ground for a break that never came. The loss of one Roosevelt State on the next roll-call would mean disaster...
...suffering from an incurable ailment, explained that she had given her mother poison in the guise of medicine to put her out of her misery. The trial of Mrs. Bang ended month and a half ago. She was sentenced to only three months in jail. Last week long, lean King Christian X sympathetically reviewed the case of his subject Mrs. Bang, pardoned...
...Tall, lean, athletic, with neatly combed iron grey hair and blue eyes, he makes a good impression when he addresses the House. No ranter, he speaks to the point and is well prepared on the few subjects he selects to discuss. He waves his hands, indulges in a few oratorical flourishes but is otherwise logical and legalistic on his feet...
...smart President, to be reelected, must not overcapitalize on his office. With so much power and prestige at his command he must lean over backward to create the popular notion that being President of all the People is his first consideration and being a partisan candidate for another term is only of secondary importance. Such was President Hoover's air last week. Outwardly he took no official notice whatever of the fact that his party was assembled in Chicago to renominate...
Credit for the B. E. F.'s good behavior went principally to 34-year-old Walter W. Waters, originator of the Washington march, who was selected last week as the B. E. F.'s commander-in-chief. Tall, lean, sunburned, Waters first saw service on the Mexican border. Then he went overseas as a sergeant for nearly two years with the 146th Field Artillery. Mustered out, he married a blonde slip of a girl from Valparaiso, Ind., took her to Oregon where he worked as superintendent of a canning factory, had a house...