Word: slendering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waiter's fingers. He roofed the building with light copper sheathing, made the centre of gravity low as a ship's. And like a ship, the Imperial was made to float. Instead of sinking deep piers to bedrock, the architect rested his building on hundreds of slender, pointed 8-ft. piles, distributing the weight evenly...
Married. Lucy Tew, daughter of Manhattan Socialites Mr. & Mrs. William H. Tew; to tall, slender Georgian Prince Georges Dadiani, Parisian perfumer (Matchabelli); in an hour-long Eastern Orthodox service; in Manhattan...
...climactic events was easier for Director Frank Lloyd and his cinemauthor associate, Howard Estabrook, than to relate them coherently and plausibly in a film of less than two hours' duration. Too experienced a craftsman to suspend the full weight of so freighted a period on romance's slender cord. Director Lloyd makes a valiant try at hooking up Wells & Fargo with everything in sight, from notorious Lola Montez to Lincoln's second inaugural address...
...Bureau Federation most. When the Supreme Court intervened to break up AAA, Ed O'Neal stayed on to help Henry Wallace salvage what he could with the Soil Conservation Act. So this year when Franklin Roosevelt, in the face of mounting agricultural production, asked Congress to amplify the slender powers the Government possessed to control it, Henry Wallace and Ed O'Neal seemed destined to work on another farm bill together...
...filibusterer can make an effective speech, however, was demonstrated when Alabama's Dixie Graves rose for her maiden Senate effort. Apologizing for her forwardness by explaining that the term to which her Governor husband appointed her would probably expire before the Anti-Lynching Bill was voted on, slender Mrs. Graves put her protest on record with ladylike dignity. Said she: ". . . If this bill is passed, you will say not merely to America but ... to the world, we have in our Union a group of Southern States that cannot or will not enforce the law. I cannot believe that...