Word: leans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...39th week. The original leader, Albert Weisbord, lean 26-year-old dynamo from Harvard Law School, retired in August when the American Federation of Labor granted a charter to the textile workers. The A. F. of L. has not yet come any nearer settling the strike than did Mr. Weisbord...
Today is always a lean day for a vagabound: University life every Saturday morning seems to take a breathing spell in preparation for the afternoon. Yet the following lectures seem to be of interest...
...some evening, take off his top hat and dress coat, roll up his sleeves, and write a song that would surge above the glamor of "The Sidewalks of New York." But down on the lower East Side the old grind organs still throb and Tammany Hall politicians light cigars, lean back in squeaky chairs, smile at one another, say: "He cannot...
...middle of the jungle, at midnight, near Eshowe, capital of Zululand, a lean witch-doctor pranced around a naked black woman while tom-toms rustled and torches veered. A clay pot filled with earth from a slain chief's grave lay in a pit above which the woman was stretched on a hide; the witch-man leaped high, making medicine for war while tom-toms rustled and torches veered. A chief had been murdered; now the tribe, protected by strong medicine against bad luck, would move through the jungle to kill his killers. They would move safely...
...iron voice began its snarling; quick little men, clumsy big men, fought and went away again. Beside the ring sat eight frightened fellows in sweaters. They were referees. When a preliminary fight was to begin, a man sitting behind would lean over and tap one of them on the shoulder. Now he tapped Tommy Reilly. The crowd cheered...