Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Follow the Fleet (RKO) was designed to take lean, prissy-looking Fred Astaire out of the gilded surroundings in which he has crooned and capered hitherto and put him before his enraptured public as a man among men. He wears a sailor suit with as much flare as he ever brought to a top hat & tails. He sings in his reedy voice three new Irving Berlin songs and he dances four times: 1) an eccentric fox-trot with knee-flips in a dancehall, where he and Ginger Rogers win the contest; 2) a parody deck drill on a battleship with...
...eyes with suitable agony at the world's injustice. Remembering the success of Les Misèrables, in which Charles Laughton gave a memorable interpretation of a tireless detective, Producer Zanuck inserted a similar character to add to Dr. Mudd's torments at Fort Jefferson: a lean & mean chief warden (John Carradine). A sharp-tongued, suspicious prison doctor was well played by 0. P. Heggie, who died two weeks after his role was finished. The picture is a splendid example of biographical melodrama which should appall its audiences, enrich its producers and remind Hollywood that U. S. history...
Amid the political storms which have lashed the University of Oregon (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932 et seq.), a lean, -square-jawed educator named Clarence Valentine Boyer bobbed to the top as acting president in January 1934, became full president three months later...
Capitalist. The one remarkable man on the new Board is the governor appointed to the four-year term and designated by the President as chairman. At 45 Marriner Stoddard Eccles is lean, smallish, nervous, intense. In manner he is pleasant, impersonal. Like many another New Dealer he is convinced that in money management lies the salvation of Capitalism...
...slums, exclaiming at scenes of squalor "How ghastly!", but he did pop off, often with Americans and nearly always to points beyond the orbit of those responsible British states men over whom the new King must now reign while they rule. For the sheer energy of this light, lean King the ruled class have a special liking, because to them so many British employers seem languid and over fed. Edward VIII is appropriately a "snappy" King. The extreme difficulty of finding for Britain a future "snappy" Queen among the eligible princesses of Europe is part of the reason why Edward...