Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Butch. Paul Brown is unmoved by the ballyhoo that surrounds All-America stars. Says he: "Stars are often figments of sportswriters' imaginations. I want high-grade, intelligent men. There's no place on my team for big Butch who talks hard and drinks hard. I like a lean and hungry look...
...like asking me what do I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and strawberry sundaes." Says his old friend, Librettist Otto Harbach: "He is a real gentleman of the theater." Says the wife of one of his collaborators: "He seems to have everlasting arms to lean on in trouble...
Hollywood marked the beginning of a long, curious period of Hammerstein failure. He worked on a dozen musicals between 1930 and 1942, but few were hits. He suffered the lean years stoically. In 1940 he bought, as a sort of refuge, a farm near Doylestown, Pa. People said that Oscar Hammerstein was through; he claims that he was kept going by a "certain inner conceit...
...situation is still uncertain, as that department is pretty lean after the injuries sustained last week. Starter Bob Barton is definitely out with a couple of cracked ribs, and Tom Kelleher, promising Sophomore end from Philadelphia, has been on the shelf with two gimpy knees and a heavy cold. If Kelleher isn't ready, Winthrop Whip Ralliday will start at the right flank and Tom Costello will take over Barton's left end slot...
...yeoman work in investigating commuter hardship cases-should be brought into the confidence of those making allocations. Just as the looser critics of the housing powers-that-be could well lend a patient car to the full scope of the issue, so those in authority can not afford to lean complacently back with the gym-dwelling's finale at hand...