Word: slendering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago last month a slender, waxen-faced woman of 45 lay ill with pleurisy in a hotel room in The Hague. A sedative had been given to spare her pain. Quietly, as if entranced, she spoke to her maid: "Marguerite! My swan costume!" As if she were hearing an unseen orchestra, Anna Pavlova lifted her arms, fluttered her hands. "Play that last measure softly," she murmured. And before the world realized that she was seriously ill the great Russian dancer was dead...
Engraving prayers on pinheads may be Art for Art's sake, but making smaller & smaller radio transmitters is a matter of convenience and utility. National Broadcasting Co. last week exhibited a three-inch cubical box with slender, demountable, 10-in. antennae projecting on each side. Like the heavier portable sets which it is intended to replace, this pocket transmitter enables an announcer to roam freely at State fairs, golf tournaments, Roller Derbies and train wrecks, ready to broadcast at any instant. Weighing less than a pound, powered by a 90-volt battery which weighs some...
Their eldest son last week was seen at night, a slender figure outlined in silhouette against the glowing windows of Sandringham, pacing about with quick movements in a chamber near that of George V. The Queen, indefatigable nurse and splendid woman, snatched only the briefest catnaps in a small bedchamber and was virtually in attendance night & day in the big, air-conditioned room where the King lay barred from drafts by a double circle of high screens around...
From the Harlem Y. W. C. A. last week a slender, young Negro woman was lifted into a taxicab, driven away to Manhattan's Town Hall, where one of the most curious audiences of the season had gathered to hear a singer whose name had already spread the length & breadth of Europe. Some wondered why the curtain went up showing her so carefully posed in the crook of a grand piano. Not until she had sung four songs did she trouble to explain that her foot was in a cast, that she had injured it aboard ship, that...
...sent to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. There she discovered the voice that won her successive scholarships from the Juilliard Musical Foundation, months of sound study in Germany, engagements at the Berlin Staatsoper and at the Paris Opéra-Comique. New Yorkers saw her last week as a slender, graceful young woman of 32 who had so thoroughly absorbed the role that there was scarcely a detail left unfinished. She could be fluttery and childlike without seeming foolish. She could be wistful and shy and still suggest a certain brave dig nity. Her Un bel di vedremo was perfectly...