Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month after its first birthday, pow erful Aviation Corp., $40,000,000 holding company, last week acquired a new president. Lean, sharp-witted Graham Bethune Grosvenor stepped down to vice-chairman of the directorate while gaunt, eye-glassed, solemn-looking but humorous Frederic Gallup Coburn stepped up from the directorate and assumed the No. 1 title. Avco published no reasons for the change but well-informed observers knew the following...
...swept away the Tsar and the past, Futurist Mayakovsky appeared triumphant at Leon Trotsky's right hand. Like Rudyard Kipling, with whom Russians compare him, Vladimir Mayakovsky was at his best as a war poet. More than six feet tall, hairy-chested, huge-voiced, he toured Russia with lean, shrill Trotsky, the organ- izing genius who created the Red Army -today largest on earth.-To the soldiers the statesman would speak in his curt, compelling voice. Then, towering up from nowhere, the poet would take the platform, roar out his latest barrack-room ballad, put fight into the then...
Alfonso's squirt-water insult to the future ruler of the nation which rules the waves. Wilhelm II, when Kaiser and All Highest War Lord, used to ask visiting royal males below the rank of Emperor to lean out a certain window, the better to watch troops parading below. When they did so the All Highest would give their posteriors a resounding, open-palm slap, would laugh and laugh...
Magnificently gaunt last week was Stokowski's translation of Stravinsky's primitive, pornographic music - music which in its finale is tremendous enough truly to suggest an upheaval of the brutal earth. Lean, sallow Martha Graham did the sacrificial dance in accordance with the spirit of the whole production-jerking, stamping, lunging in the manner which seems to some beholders insane, to others sublime. Many seeing and hearing understood for the first time why the Paris production, put on by the late great Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghilev in 1913, was greeted by a riot, the audience shouting so that...
...Trinity College, Cambridge. Before the War he worked with Publisher Doubleday Page because he liked books, thought he had not enough ability to write one himself. After the War doctors ordered him South. Says he: "I had to do something . . . so I decided to try writing short stories. . . ." Lean, tanned, Author Boyd is Master of Hounds at Southern Pines, hunts three days a week during the season. Other books: Drums, Marching...