Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saxophonist was Bud Freeman. Negro Roy Eldridge blew a clear, jabbing, powerful trumpet. And when the band got in the groove with Strut, Miss Lizzie, the thin, brilliant, swooping clarinet runs of lean, sardonic Pee Wee Russell brought Toto's Green Haven Inn to its feet...
After five lean games, a blocking touch finally came to Dick Harlow's touchdown-hungry gridders--almost like a bolt out of the blue. And they intend to give that bolt right back to the Blue tomorrow afternoon in the Yale Bowl before 45,000 spectators...
...Pittman liked straight shooting, straight talk, straight whiskey. Despite his 68 years, he was tall, lean and lithe as a whip. It was said that he kept flat-waisted by bowing gracefully. He had plantation manners-the soft-voiced courtesy of his Vicksburg, Miss, breeding. But he was tough, too, in the tradition of Westerners, never more dangerous than at his extreme politest, with a laconic wit that shot from...
Catholicism's lot in Mexico has eased slightly of late years. Under its lean, dark, learned Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez y Rodriguez, a friend of President Lazaro Cardenas, the Church has been law-abiding, has seen one restriction after another lifted or lapsed. But still in effect are such cynically anti-religious provisos as the State of Tabasco's law permitting any priest to officiate provided he is married...
When Henry Ford begins his daily rounds of River Rouge, his first stop is the white-walled Boyer lab, which he thinks will soon be the most renowned building on his property. When his tan, lean face bends next to Boyer's ruddy, cherubic face over the desk, they look like two schoolboys plotting a prank...