Word: slenderness
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...Baker, World War I Secretary of War and famed Wilsonian, wrote to Brooks Emeny, a young (then 33), Princeton-trained instructor in foreign affairs at Yale University. It was an offer of a hard job: to put vigor and educational purpose into Cleveland's limping Foreign Affairs Council. Slender, earnest Brooks Emeny took it on. He found a membership of 300 women, 50 men holding only four meetings a year...
...days in any farm, community would reveal to even a critical British traveler that surprisingly few of the girls or their mamas are pale and wan, with "narrow hips . . . and slender, nonprehensile hands." He would discover in any small town, and perhaps be cheered to learn, that not all of the homes consist of a "spectacled, crushed-looking man" dominated by a starved and sterile-appearing clotheshorse...
...striking thing, when one looks at these pictures, is the overbred, exhausted, even decadent style of beauty that now seems to be striven after. Nearly all of these women are immensely elongated. A thin-boned, ancient-Egyptian type of face seems to predominate: narrow hips are general, and slender, nonprehensile hands like those of a lizard are quite universal. Evidently it is a real physical type...
...ravenous plain meals . . . Beatrice throwing away her pen and hurling herself on her husband in a shower of caresses which lasted until the passion for work resumed its sway." In 1896, wrote Shaw (whom serious Beatrice Webb regarded as "a sprite"-a sort of undine with only a slender connection with the world of mortals): "The Fabian old gang can only afford a country house for our holiday because one of us [Sidney Webb] has a wife with a thousand a year. This time we have been joined by an Irish millionairess-a great catch for somebody*-whom we have...
...back. The impertinence soon gave way to respect. Wadsworth plugged the gaps in the London and local staffs with serious youngsters who wanted independence more than money (average pay of Guardian reporters is only $48 a week). For his right-hand man and chief leader writer he chose slender, 35-year-old John M. D. Pringle, an Oxford graduate and foreign affairs expert who had been with the Guardian and the BBC before the war. To expand his U.S. coverage, handled for 19 years by the New Republic's Editor Bruce Bliven, he hired BBCman Alistair Cooke...