Word: slender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's Pier Angeli, a slender, childlike girl of 18, plays a war bride with no makeup or fancy hairdo, and nothing of what Hollywood knows as sex appeal. Her lean, pretty face radiates something much rarer in Hollywood leading ladies: a lucid innocence through which emotions flow without let or artifice...
...much of Bierce is intellectual dandruff from an unkempt ego, the best of the wit still sparkles, and a few true-eyed Civil War tales are at least as durable as war. Biographer Fatout fails to indicate the company Bierce keeps-Poe, Melville, Stephen Crane, H. L. Mencken-the slender, off-key tradition of pessimism in American life & letters. "Why should I remain in a country that is on the eve of woman's suffrage and prohibition?" sulked Bierce in 1912. The old (71) soldier wanted to see if Pancho Villa and his Mexicans could shoot straight. Late...
...Harry Truman wanted a fight over the report charging favoritism and undue influence in RFC loans, the Senators were more than willing to oblige. As a prime example of what they were talking about, they dug further into the case of E. Merl Young (TIME, Feb. 12), a slender, nervous man with Democratic National Committee and White House connections (e.g., his wife is a White House stenographer). In their earlier investigations, the Senators had found Young to be "the individual named most frequently in the reports of alleged influence...
Cautious Combat. Typical of the sporadic fighting was the action on Hill 166, about four miles south of Hoengsong. A characterless little hump extending from the Wonju-Hoengsong road into barren stony mountains whose crevices gleam with snow, Hill 166 is distinguished only by a thin ruff of slender trees along the western slope, a high-tension wire standard on its crest, and a cluster of high Korean grave mounds on its southern slope...
Friends in Seattle remember Betty Graham as a slender, doe-eyed girl with a "restless mind." Majoring in psychology at the University of Washington, she was a topflight student and a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority member with a normal interest in fun and parties. But she had no time for a steady boy friend or the small college talk of her friends; to her friends she seemed to be seeking a more intellectual interest...