Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Benjamin Schlesinger, 55, founder-president of potent International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; of tuberculosis; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Lean, rangy, bitterly intense. Founder Schlesinger was regarded as one of Labor's ablest leaders, his union as one of the strongest...
...windy city" will be assailed by new gusts as the widely ballyhooed, expensive Republican convention starts revolving on its well greased axis. There will be little to disturb the placld sequence of oratory, credentials, temporary officers, resolutions, and the form of nomination; party managers with an eye to lean purses have seen to that. Every effort will be made to dispatch the weary business and send the local delegates a homing by Thursday at the latest...
Herbert is heavily built, a noisy dynamo even at play. Mortimer is lean, quiet, takes his fun and work quietly. On the golf course Herbert shatters opponents' nerves by the way he chatters, exults, boasts, bets. His directors are fearful of accepting cigars from him lest they explode in mid-meeting. His cigaret cases have been known to contain alarming jack-in-the-boxes...
...long joint meeting, San Franciscans guessed that the merged bank would probably be called Anglo California National Bank, that it would be housed in Anglo & London's big building at Market & Sansome Streets rather than in Anglo-California's building. It was taken for granted that lean, polite Brother Mortimer would be chairman, loud Brother Herbert president. For Brother Herbert has shown ability not only in the mechanics of banking and investment but also in the delicate matter of contact with customers. He has often so genially laughed off his "inability" to lend money that the would...
...with everything from the rise of the pants business to the fall of women's skirts in the United States, History 55 is the salt and pepper course in American History. Earlier courses in the field emphasize the economic and political sides of the edifice. This course sets a lean-to side on the building by attempting to present the social and intellectual development of America...