Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just when divine justice is being reproachfully questioned by Ramona's homely protectress, along comes Filipe (Kent Taylor), Ramona's other lover, and promises to be a satisfactory compensation. If these broad outlines leave you cold, you may still be affected by the sight of John Carradine, that lean, relentless fiend from "The Prisoner of Shark's Island", dragging along the futilely resisting Ramona as he goes to pump three bullcts into the helpless Alessandro, for having taken his (the American's) horse in a desperate effort to save the life of his baby...
...Vagabond and his love to the Army game tomorrow . . . . brass buttons and brass music, smoky-blue greatcoats, lean American faces, gloved hands in a row as straight as a die; black jerseys with horizontal stripes, red jerseys with huge white numerals, golden pants. The Vagabond and his Love on cold stone seats, bruised by the carnival mob. And afterwards sweet dry applewood on the fire and lights coming on in windows across the Quadrangle and a long godbye...
...Walker County Governor Graves dispatched his Superintendent of Education, his Commissioner of Labor, and lean Lawrence Lee, his own labor expert and onetime law partner. Sputtered the Governor: "These children shall not be crucified to attain any end, whatsoever. . . . And that's saying...
Glasgow's Principal Sir Robert Sangster Rait died this year. Last week Glasgow turned out to welcome his successor, Principal Sir Hector James Wright Hetherington. At 48 the youngest chief executive in the University's history, lean, athletic Sir Hector was graduated by Glasgow with highest honors in both economics and philosophy, has served on the faculties of Sheffield, University College (Cardiff), University College (Exeter), was called back to Glasgow from the Vice-Chancellorship of relatively upstart Liverpool University...
...more than a year one of A. B. A.'s great public purposes has been to "take the mystery out of banking," ingratiate the U. S. Banker with the U. S. Citizen. To the convention last week went General Foods' lean President Clarence Francis with evidence that efforts had better be redoubled. President Francis had partial results of a survey made among 7,400 bank presidents and 50,000 "cross-section consumers." The evidence: 34% of the consumers thought they were better treated by shopkeepers than by bankers, 57% believed bankers were not doing their bit in Recovery...