Word: leans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Young Griffo died. He died in a basement room, where he had lived for ten years an object of Rose Collins' charity. She remembered the lean days long ago when her husband kept a Manhattan saloon and trade was treacherous, until Young Griffo stumbled through the swinging doors and spread his handkerchief. Barflies & roustabouts swarmed to the challenge. Griffo made the Collins fortune. Widow Collins remembered...
...Frank Billings Kellogg to his right side. In the end chair on that side, well-built, well-dressed, young-looking Secretary of War Davis sat. Secretary Andrew William Mellon (Treasury), got the chair on the President's immediate left, of course. He kept his chin up, with his lean, close-cropped, snowy head cocked alertly until the camera clicked. Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, physically the biggest Cabinet man, betrayed camera-shyness in his expressions of head, face, hands (one holding a cigar) and crossed legs. Postmaster General Harry Stewart New took his seat on the last chair, frowning...
Observers, viewing the Christmas ware displayed last week, noted a sharp revival in the popularity of military toys. (In the lean, sorrowful years just after the World War, few Germans had the heart to give their children even dummy weapons of destruction...
...Lean limbed youths from 15 eastern colleges, last week bunched at a mark in Van Cortlandt Park, New York City. A half hour later, William Cox of Penn State had drawn the bunch out into a thin, ragged, gasping line. He traveled six miles in 30 minutes 36 4/5 seconds to win the intercollegiate cross country championship. Finishing five runners in the first 30, Penn State won the team championship. Another Penn Stater won the freshman chase, and the Penn State freshman team also won freshman team honors. Thus Penn State secured four championships; no college ever did that before...
...country had hardly recovered from the threat of war incident to the despatch of the Panther by the German Government to Agadir. Internally the country was split by a virtual civil war as well as the usual bandit depredations. It was natural that the young Sultan should lean more and more on Marshal Lyautey, "the grand old man of Morocco," who was the French Resident General. It was largely because of their mutual confidence that France was able so completely to pacify the country that she was able to withdraw two-thirds of her troops during...