Word: slenderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such were words spoken last week in Constantinople by the great Tewfik Rushdi Bey, perhaps the most wholesomely feared and respected Near Eastern statesman. As he talked, the slender, expressive hands of Tewfik Rushdi Bey seemed to articulate his meaning almost more effectively than his precise, somewhat mincing words. As always, the eyes of the Turkish Foreign Minister seemed abnormally large and penetrating by reason of the thick, magnifying lenses of his glasses...
Christened Theodore, this indigent individual becomes Mr. Fortune's shadow, docile and domestic Friday to the clergyman's unstrenuous Crusoe. He idolizes Mr. Fortune in place of the grotesque wooden figure which had previously had that honor. But eventually the demands of Christian religion, slender as they were, grow irksome. Lueli dwindles and repines. He goes to the forest in off moments and bows down in the ancestral fashion to images...
Three men sat, like the Three Fates, close together on the Government bench of the House of Commons. Like the Fates, they had power to cut a thread of life-the slender diplomatic thread linking the two largest countries on the globe. The British Empire had come to the point of severing relations with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Premier Stanley Baldwin rose from where he sat between Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill. Ostensibly they were calm, Sir Austen sitting habitually erect and glacial, almost prim; and Mr. Churchill slumped...
...title piece is less a story than an impressionistic anecdote. It ironically details the slender history of a nameless Negro in an overseas battalion who was caught filching food from another outfit's mess. He finds that the hardboiled lieutenant to whom he is brought for discipline hails from Galveston, Tex. So does the Negro. They chat together for a few minutes. Months later the officer learns that the black regiment has been destroyed...
...course they were speaking very strictly indeed. Not every 'prentice draughtsman, not any workaday engineer, is an "architect" to the directors of the American Institute of Architects, who made this slender census estimate at the Institute's 60th convention last week in Washington...