Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke Woodrow Wilson on a fresh, sunny winter day 27 years ago, in his first inaugural address. Among his many listeners was Franklin Roosevelt, 31 years old, light-haired, lean, tall, a bit dandified, bundled "in a greatcoat against the chill...
...quiet, firm-voiced little Hollywood doctor, Harold Barnard, had joined the train at Kansas City, summoned by plane from Hollywood. Willkie glared at him. "Lean back and open your mouth," ordered Dr. Barnard. "Go to hell and take your tools with you," croaked Willkie. Dr. Barnard looked at him a moment, said: "Personally, I don't give a damn. But that throat of yours right now is the only way some 20,000,000 Americans can express themselves. Lean back!" Willkie looked at the doctor, grinned, opened his mouth...
...Lean, long-fingered Alexander Brailowsky, Russian Chopin virtuoso, stepped onto the stage of Barranquilla, Colombia's Municipal Theatre, acknowledged applause, then turned toward the piano. It wasn't there. The manager had forgotten. There was no concert...
...Navy, was substituted Vice Admiral John C. Tovey (rhymes with covey). This change precisely paralleled the recent substitutions of Sir Alan Brooke for Lord Gort in the Army, of Sir Charles Portal for Sir Cyril Newall in the R. A. F. Tough "Jack" Tovey, lean and electric, is the man who, commanding the destroyer Onslow at Jutland, engaged first the cruiser Wiesbaden, then the battleship Derfflinger, with only his torpedoes and four-inch guns; stopped fighting only when a hail of shells from the German ships put him out of action...
...likely to be the first U. S. Episcopal archbishop is lean, spiritual Bishop Tucker, who as a good Virginia Low Churchman would dislike the trappings of the office. He will reach the retirement age for Presiding Bishops (68) at the next General Convention in 1943, when by a pleasant coincidence Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington will reach the newly set retirement age for other bishops (72). With the two offices falling vacant at once, Episcopalians will then have a good excuse for merging them...