Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writing of the critics that Mr. Brown is most entertaining and keen. He speaks of criticism as that "lean-to in literature." Woolcott. Young and Nathan who wrote of the modern sex play as "The Adventures of Phallus in Wonderland" are all considered in the light of their critical idiosyncrasies. This section is one of the high spots in the book...
...must not feel hurt if there is evinced a natural tendency to support those who have served long and well. The erudite old lady of Mount Auburn Street has fared exceedingly well since the demise of her spouse, whom rumor has it was the Hossier Schoolmaster. But these are lean days for all, and now that the Wolff is snarling at the Widow's door the faithfulness and gratitude of her many friends will be put to the test...
...behind the conflict, safe and far, Still wage with lips their travesty of war; We catch the rumor when the cannon cease. Here at the front, when most of the cannon rage, The dream-touched actors on this mighty stage In silence play their parts, and seem at peace. Lean, swart and homely, wise and sardonic...
Lord Willingdon is acceptable to the non-partisan mass of the British public because of his obvious fitness for the job. Long, lean, after his able service through the War as Governor of Bombay (Bombay was headquarters for the ill-fated British Mesopotamia expedition) he was appointed Governor of Madras. British papers announced that it was "a foregone conclusion" that he would be next Viceroy of India. Something went wrong, Lord Reading, a fellow-Liberal, got the job. In 1926 Lord Willingdon was made Governor General of Canada. Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas, his eldest son, served in the Coldstreams...
Most of the time the tousle-headed man laughed also. But occasionally his eyes looked frightened, his left hand opened and shut nervously. Then the quiet woman would lean toward him, pat his hand. She, Frau Elsa Einstein Einstein, knew that the world must continue making its legend about this small man, her double cousin to whom she has been married for 14 years.∙ She knows that popular imagination makes of him a hero who works in a solitary study mixing mathematical equations to get Truth as old-time alchemists mixed base metals to obtain Gold. She also knows...