Word: leans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall, lean man stands up before the Pennsylvania legislature. He is 61 and something of a fighter. His name is Gifford Pinchot (although the late Senator Boies Penrose once suggested that it be changed to "Pin-shot"). He is Governor of Pennsylvania and he is reading his farewell message. His audience becomes restless as he recounts the departmental doings. Suddenly he switches to "gangs"; there is a hush, followed by a buzz. He says...
...Route to Washington Prince Chichibu's special halted at Baltimore and His Imperial Highness stepped upon the platform as another special rolled in bound for Trenton, N. J. Therein a lean-faced gentleman sat reading a handful of clippings about Nicaragua (see p. 8). The lean, thoughtful gentleman went on reading, and the tall prince waited. Then, since loutish railwaymen failed to tell the President of the U. S. that Prince Chichibu waited, the presidential special coasted through Baltimore, gathered speed and vanished, while the President read on, oblivious...
...virtually graduated the same day he matriculated. When they saw his first "hoss," his instructors recognized that he possessed instinctively, and could execute, most of the knowledge they could impart in a lifetime. With no model other than mental images of his favorite pony, "Morgan," and a long-legged, lean-jawed man in a gallon hat and leather chaparajos he worked up models full of tense horse-and-man action in which every muscle, strap and stretch of skin strained perfectly or lay in lifelike ease. So thoroughly did he know what he was about that of all the structural...
...called to pacify Anderson relatives) discovered the great impersonal world of horses, rats, cows, sheep, and tried to join it by eating grass. He has never lost the sense of curiosity, wonder and cosmic humor experienced by little Tar when he saw the bald drug clerk and his lean wife cutting privy antics. He recalls Tar's first frights, shames, loves, possessions, just writing them down and then looking at them as Tar used to, stupidly perhaps but quite happily, saying, "Well, now. What to think of that?" The only sad note in Huck's boyhood came...
...City Hospital on Welfare Island, 219 men and 147 women- lean as gulls, most of them, some with red patches under their nostrils ("snowbirds," "sniffers") some with their forearms and thighs pockmarked with infected needle-sores; some sent to the narcotic ward by prison authorities, some self-committed in an attempt to get rid of their addiction-took the narcosan treatment. The solution is injected with a hypodermic syringe. The lipoids in narcosan neutralize toxic substances. The proteins stimulate new blood formation. This, at all events, is the theory of the way in which it works. The facts...