Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maharani; Tom Ransome, lean, good-looking profligate and world-wanderer; Fern Simon, pretty daughter of the resident missionary; Major Safti, brilliant native surgeon, and Miss MacDaid, his head nurse; Lord Esketh, a self-made peer, and his lady; attendant functionaries, members of the garrison, dried-up and dissatisfied English ladies...
Only an adroit photographer can snap lean Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain in such wise as to make it seem that he might have a paunch (see cut), but the same is not true of John Bull and last week His Majesty's Government launched an enormously costly campaign to make currently flabby Britons fit. To establish more playing fields and pay the wages of gymnastic instructors. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, who seems as lean as the Prime Minister but unlike him distinctly more pink-faced, has budgeted this year about $12,500,000. Mr. Chamberlain...
Last year Dr. Chapin, 48, now associate curator of Manhattan's Museum of Natural History-a lean man with snapping eyes, unruly grey hair and a sandy mustache-was in the Congo Museum in Tervueren, Belgium, finishing research for a book he was writing. Deciding he had need of the museum director, who was studying shells on the fourth floor, he trotted up the stairs, idled along a quiet corridor. Suddenly on top of a dusty exhibit case, he saw a pair of unfamiliar birds. He grabbed them, lugged them to the director, demanded an explanation. They had been...
Over the dimpled, apple-laden hills of Yakima, Wash, some 30 years ago a sandy-haired boy with a pinched, earnest face used to peddle papers for the Yakima Daily Republic to help support his impoverished family.. Two months ago when this same boy, now a lean, tousle-haired lawyer of 39, was rumored to be in line for an important Government post, the Yakima daily Republic sourly headlined an editorial: "Yakima Not at Fault." Reason for the daily Republic's lack of enthusiasm over the possibility that William Orville Douglas might become chairman of the Securities & Exchange...
...were bored by its ponderous length that the book soared into the best-selling class. Last week a sizable audience was waiting with shocking hopefulness for the sequel, Europa In Limbo. But purple passages in the latest Briffault were thin and few. An earnest, disillusioned, clumsily Voltairian novel, its lean streaks of perception were buried in thick stretches of unmuscled...