Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spring," we wish to point out, is a euphemism. It is not our intention to lean on authority, but Mr. Samuel Clemens was not the first to comment on the weather of Boston and its on-virons. Nor, indeed, was he the last; we, in our time have been moved to expressions of opinions which your estimable sheet would certainly not be safe in printing. If the vernal urge, whatever that is, is at any moment roused, it is in the next moment squelched by one of those inimitable gusts of Boston atmosphere. How anyone can really get spring fever...
...sell nothing but U. S. art. William Macbeth, a quiet little Irishman with a soft brown beard, arrived in the U. S. in 1871 and entered the art firm of Frederick Keppel &; Co. In 1892 he left to start his own gallery of U. S. art. It was a lean time for U. S. painters. Fifteen years earlier the magnificos of the Reconstruction Era used to pay $10,000 to $25,000 apiece for paintings of the Hudson River School. Founder Macbeth sold his first picture a Wyant, for $750. He wrote 25 years later...
...Long, lean Eamon de Valera caught only snatches of troubled sleep last week. Although his home, ''Springville," is but ten motor minutes from Government House in Dublin, President de Valera had a bed lugged into his office. Toiling and arguing with his Cabinet Ministers, Ireland's "Messiah of Freedom'' faced with haggard mien an invisible and potent foe: the collective opposition of very polite British statesmen throughout the Empire. London hurled at Dublin last week a terrifying silence, a lack of further protest against the two major platform promises on which President de Valera was elected: abolition of the Free...
...sketches. Jo Mielziner's seldom are. In addition he has found time between building scale models, carpenter's blue prints, electricians' light plots, laying out color schemes, to make a number of brilliant back stage sketches. One of these, a large water color of a lean, complacent French clown drawing on a huge pair of rose-colored gloves, would be worthy of attention if its author did not know the difference between a fly loft and a fire hydrant...
...spike is an almost solid tapering pole weighting eight and one half tons. It is used principally to strengthen and make the spire secure. In three sections the pole was lifted through the framework, screwed together and temporarily clamped. The appearance of a slight lean is due to the fact that it has not yet been secured in the ceiling of the rectangular room housing the old bell, now ringing from Harvard Hall. Bolts, cables, and cement will be used to fasten the pole within the framework beginning today. Contrary to current suppositions, it is not a lightning arrestor, although...