Word: slenderness
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...Twelfth-century Dorothy Diggs advised businessmen not to court ladies by boasting of "military prowess." If they did, the ladies would "point out that soldiers' calves are slender and their feet of modest dimensions, whereas [the businessman's] calves are fat." The courting gentleman was also faced with courtly dilemmas. Asked, for example, which half of his lady he would prefer to have if she were divided in two at the waist, it is fruitless to plump piously for the top half (in hope of being rewarded with the lower) because the lady would only point out coldly...
From a Teletype within the United Nations' slender skyscraper in Manhattan, a message sped halfway around the world to the desk of Chou Enlai. Premier and Foreign Minister of Communist China: the Security Council of the U.N. respectfully invites Red China to participate in a debate of ways and means to stop the shooting and avert a full-scale war over the question of Formosa. R.S.V.P...
...apparently not anticipated the U.S.-Formosa treaty). Chou also seemed to be assuming that time and other forces would be working for him. In that, he was at least partially right. Before the week was out, and the sound of Chou's insolence had died away, a slender man with jodhpured legs and a rosebud in his buttonhole scooted about the diplomatic conference rooms of London with whispered propositions on his lips. India's Jawaharlal Nehru wanted to be helpful...
With the appearance of LPs, once-bulky record albums became slender. Now major labels are again selling bulk, by releasing records in packages and series. As the winter music season got under way, several large, attractive series were on the counters. Victor released the second two LP volumes of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas, played with unbeatable fire and insight by the late great Artur Schnabel. London completed its own releases of the same series by 70-year-old Wilhelm Backhaus, as well as all seven Symphonies by British Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted...
...jobs. Often he goes to extremes unconsciously trying to avoid the "made-up" praise of critics who have long since become bored with the theatre Although he would deny it, his work in these instances seems to disagree simply for the sake of disagreeing, to smash idols on slender pretexts from motives of sheer perversity. He scorns Shirley Booth, for instance, because she is a "common-man" actress who makes love to the public by portraying the common level. For Bentley, the relationship between Miss Booth and her audience is purely erotic...