Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Expectations. Britain's Director David Lean & colleagues do for Dickens what Laurence Olivier did for Shakespeare (TIME...
...Help of Hustle. All during the Athletics' lean years, Connie said repeatedly that he had his heart set on winning one more pennant (his tenth) before he quits. The A's undoubtedly won't make it this year, but at least they are acting as if they cared. They have pretty good pitching (Phil Marchildon, Dick Fowler, Bob Savage, Russ Christopher), mediocre fielding, and almost the weakest hitting in the league (Outfielder Barney McCoskey is the only .300 hitter). What can't be measured statistically is their hustle, a lot of it contributed by Rookie Ferris...
...inquiring reporter served up some samples. Herbert Bayard Swope thought the longer dresses neither revealing nor concealing-just dull. Onetime Cinemactress and Clothes Horse Gloria Swanson said: "They flatter those whose knees do not stand leg-revealing clothes." Look's Mrs. Gardner Cowles: "They make women look long, lean and restricted...
...Strangler") Lewis was caught in a metaphysical headlock. The 59-year-old wrestling champ of the '20s and early '30s, down 50 pounds to a lean, keen 275, was roaring simultaneously through his resuscitated mat career (his $10 million earnings had all gone, somehow) and a series of lectures on "the constructive way of living." To the Santa Barbara (Calif.) Lions Club Strangler revealed: "Mental hygiene is the coming thing. . . . We can't reach a peaceful world if we instill the will to fight in our youngsters." But then, "by overcoming one obstacle, one gains strength...
Great Expectations. Britain's Director David Lean & colleagues do for Dickens what Laurence Olivier did for Shakespeare (TIME...