Word: leans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last zeppelin with which Germany paid now glides over U. S. cities, rechristened the Los Angeles. Since she nosed out of Friedrichshafen* to fly the Atlantic, pickings have been lean for zeppelin workers on Lake Constance. Last winter Dr. Hugo Eckener, president of the Zeppelin plant, toured Germany in an effort to raise funds to build a zeppelin that should fly across the Pole-failed. What to do? Must the great zeppelin plant break up after holding together heroically during the eight years since...
...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...
...well-mouthed stump and he discovered that he possessed no other cigars. Foreign Minister Briand of France, resourceful, smilingly proffered a packet of French cigarets from which Dr. Stresemann selected one without enthusiasm. Upon this tableau of Franco-German concord Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain of Britain (as lean as M. Briand and Dr. Stresemann are fat) cast a thin but approving smile...
Paunchy President Gaston Doumergue of France received last week at the Elysee a lean, taut-waisted, owlishly spectacled Jap, Prince Chichibu, second son of the Mikado...
...Theodore Rousseau, Director of the Paris branch of the Guaranty Trust Co. of Manhattan, waited one afternoon last week at the Gare du Lyons, Paris. In puffed a train. Out jumped a man both lean and spry. While porters panted, he sprinted with M. Rousseau for the latter's limousine, distanced newsgatherers, photographers. Then for a few days Secretary Mellon of the U. S. Treasury dwelt on the ancient Ile St. Louis, hard by Notre Dame, surrounded by the muddy Seine, ensconced at the venerable and opulent mansion of M. Rousseau whom the Secretary is said to address...