Word: leans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daughter. Mother-in-law Clephane had followed her son to a respectable grave and there was no other family music to face. Kate found New York quite graduated from its age of innocence, found her lovely daughter Anne all that was satisfying to a mother-love grown ravenous through lean years...
...calm, bearded gentleman who sat in the State Department, as well as his successor, the lean worried-looking little man; the cadaverous, fatigued-looking man who sits in the Treasury Department; the plump little man who guides the Department of Commerce-they have from time to time reached out with a long stick and gently prodded Europe. The prodding was, on the whole, very gentle, for they were gentlemen and the nations they were prodding had been our late allies. They did not wish us to appear dunners...
...much of this inefficiency is due to the acting. Alma Tell is sorely put to it to play a fascinating and experienced woman of the world. Such a woman must have a certain cutting edge. Miss Tell provides a round performance. A. E. Anson manages much better as a lean and saturnine seducer. The others do not matter...
...last week, a large boulder obstructed traffic on the Lincoln Highway at Menlo Park, between New Brunswick and Metuchen, N. J. The boulder was not directly on the cement, nor did it lean menacingly over it. Motorists could have passed by comfortably, save that before the boulder, ranged in rows upon the highway, were some 600 chairs of the folding variety used for church sociables, political meetings and open-air exercises...
...last stand. Some in black, some in white, their swart or pallid queens beside them, they saw their knights sally into the ruffle and broil of the encounter to win a momentary conquest, or to fall, dying the death that is reserved for privilege in defeat. It was a lean day that did not see a dozen monarchs overcome. Upon the neat battlefields, the gods of the nations were at war: Sir George Thomas for England, Spielmann for Austria, Rosselli for Italy, Jacques Mieses for Germany, Colle for Belgium, Alexander Alekhine for Russia, Niemzowitsch for Denmark, Richard Reti for Czecho...