Word: slendering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trust funds, Senator Walsh objected: "At a time when millions of our citizens are destitute .. . what justification can be advanced to vote a pension out of the public treasury to one who has ample private means and no vestige of claim for such a public bounty except the slender circumstance that tor a brief period she was married to a man who had once been President...
...best of the three is Out of Africa, by the author of Seven Gothic Tales, an eerie, distinguished best-seller of 1934. It was later revealed that Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of the Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke, a slender, pale, large-eyed, middle-aged Danish woman whose divorced husband is a well-known big-game hunter, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, a distant cousin of King Christian of Denmark. Married in 1914, they went out to British East Africa, where her family bought them a 6,000-acre coffee plantation in the Ngong Hills near Nairobi, capital of Kenya...
...Slender, bushy-haired William Montgomery McGovern, 40, Northwestern's famed professor of political science, had brought back from the Orient the research to complete a book, The Empires of Central Asia, on which he has been working seven years and whose first volume will be published in April. He was also primed with new learning for his courses on Asia...
...Goldwyn Follies (Samuel Goldwyn). Producer Goldwyn is no subscriber to the theory of his rival producer, Darryl Zanuck: that a screen musicomedy should be tightly woven, integrating songs and dances as part of its body proper. Mr. Goldwyn's technique is to spin a revue: a slender thread of narrative linking a series of specialties...
...related in the general clutter of hyper-religious abracadabra and the familiar hocus-pocus of third-rate melodrama. The mere mention of Kabala brings on thunder-and-lightning overtones; a departing soul is the signal for banging casements, flickering candles, fluttering curtains. Valiantly pushing its way through is a slender story of a boy (L. Libgold) and a girl (Lili Liliana) promised to each other at birth, driven to desperation when they are parted. The boy invokes Satan and goes to destruction; the girl invites his wandering soul to enter her body as a dybbuk. Climax of the film...