Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democratic House leaders took heart for the passage of their bill when small, lean Representative George Huddleston of Alabama, one of the most irregular and radical of their flock, uprose in its defense. Said...
...nosed Swede often said, "and I don't care! What difference does money make?" Since he was said to control the billion-dollar Kreuger & Toll pyramid with slightly over $250,000 key securities, Titan Kreuger's contempt for personal pelf was natural. His pocketbook was always quite lean, but other men seemed always eager to pay the taxi driver...
Since his flight from Spain without abdicating, Alfonso XIII has visited at least half the kings now reigning, but not until last week did he find one willing to do him "royal honors." Coming from Jerusalem to Cairo, lean King Alfonso was received as such by the Egyptian Grand Chamberlain, whisked off to lunch with fat King Fuad...
...years later it built a home of its own, supposed to insure its permanent endowment. Violinist Frederick August Stock, a German of sound musicianship whose very bearing imparted an air of stability, succeeded Thomas as conductor. There were frequent deficits but fat years always managed to care for lean...
...Lean, white-haired (he is 46, has been white-haired since he was 16), Cartoonist Hershfield looks and acts in every way the opposite of "Abie." Exceedingly popular, he claims to know more persons in Manhattan than anyone else not in public life. He has been photographed with eight prizefight champions, is an accomplished diner out, is in perpetual demand as a toastmaster. Also he is a practical joker. He it was who, looking from his apartment window, once saw a woman in an apartment across the street disporting herself with a male caller. Spying the woman's name...