Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madeline's pious, sad-looking mother had come from Stillwater to hold Madeline's hand; and old, lean Judge James Springer had also come from Oklahoma to help defend an old friend's flashy little daughter...
...their rounds of London last week, visiting U.S. Army chiefs sought out a very lean, very tall (6 ft. 4 in.) Englishman with a graceful name, royal blood, and one of the key posts in warring Britain. If, as some people thought, the U.S. officers were in London to sell the Imperial General Staff a second front, they did well to look up Vice Admiral, Lieut. General and Air Vice Marshal Lord Louis Mountbatten...
Rushed to a Hollywood hospital, he lay mostly in a coma, suffering from myocarditis, chronic nephritis, cirrhosis of the liver, gastric ulcers. When his great friend, Author Gene Fowler, visited him, Barrymore stage-whispered weakly: "Come closer, Gene, and hold my hand . . . lean over, Gene, I want to ask you something. ... Is it true that you're an illegitimate son of Buffalo Bill?" During a later lucid interval he was received back into the Catholic Church. Last week, at 60, with only his brother Lionel at his bedside, John Barrymore died...
Announcer on the impromptu show was Les Marcus, a long, lean, droopy-eyed newscaster. After reciting the day's results in the majors, Marcus declared he had seen "a very unsportsmanlike exhibition" a few minutes before. As he worked on his script, he said, he heard a commotion in the street. Rushing out, Marcus said he saw Cop No. 590 cuffing one of two unruly drunks he had arrested...
Standing at attention while Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall intoned the formal citation, lean-faced, balding Jimmy Doolittle bent forward while President Roosevelt pinned the gold, blue-ribboned medal above his left shirt pocket. Not even a columnist, chortled the President, had known the identity of the raid's leader...