Word: leans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dreamy look clouded the eyes of the old woman. "In Milan, Italy," she said, "the gypsy women are as slender as boys; their bracelets jingle as they lean over the wells at twilight...
...contacts with athletes are made at schools by Harvard men; we have tended to lean over backward to avoid any appearance of proselyting. Occasionally, in compliance with a request from a school in the vicinity of Cambridge, we have sent a coach for the afternoon to give specialized instruction. This practice of lending coaches builds up friendly relations and should be encouraged...
...wonder that most happiness is lean...
...referred to the International Electro-Technical Commission of which he and his fellow travelers are members. They had come to Manhattan for a ten-day sitting, the first they ever held in the U. S. The lean gentleman was Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, who takes pardonable pride, not only in his Boer War decorations and his fast game of squash, but in having founded the commission...
...story of a street girl. Her clothes were shoddy, ill-fitting; her hair slovenly, black about her forehead. Midway in the singing Meller moved out on a little platform almost over the heads of the first row, and lighted a cigaret. She smoked it singing and walked over to lean, dejected, against the stage wall. The song ended and she disappeared...