Word: leans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlike this woman, Cantain Roald Amundsen fixed his glance unswervingly upon the stage, His lean face, revealed against his companion's shirtfront, looked like the sharp and stubborn profile of a huge Norway beaver...
Artur Bodanzky, conducting, called into service the windswept vigor which he acquired last summer at the Lido, Venice, where his lean torso was seen on the beach, wrapped in a gaudy bathrobe. His wife was with him there. Also his son Karl. Also his daughter Elizabeth. He had friends to soothe him, drinks to amuse him. "I ate, drank, smoked and talked too much," said he. Yet spiritual hunger rather than oafish gluttony spoke in the fierceness with which he whipped up the clever and sometimes moving music which Mr. Honegger has written about King David...
...evening it was announced that Glasgow's new lord chancellor was suave, bemonocled Austen Chamberlain, winner by 300 votes over gusty, rotund Gilbert K. Chesterton, and by 1,000 over lean, intellectual Sidney Webb...
...Football Giants will have to go the whole length and bring in all the urchins from the corner lots to do the hard vocal labor. Then, with a leather-lunged cheering section of hired talent, and with hired cheer-leaders and a hired band, the excitement-loving, face can lean back in his seat and really enjoy all the spontaneous pagentry that is football...
...refusing to be intimidated by the comic opera Spanish army precipitates a political crisis in Madrid. A French officer, perhaps a distant relative of General Nicholas Herkimer, directs his command from a stretcher for eleven days after being shot through both hips. The underdogs in the fight are lean, brown men who live in the desert and make nothing of shooting French aviators out of the air like so many crows...