Word: slenderness
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Hard spring rains slanted into Poland's Palmiry Forest. The dank woods were full of muted human voices. Under trees that had seen 300 springs, workmen hunched against the weather, moved about looking for young, slender pines. With them went uniformed foresters, guiding, pointing...
...thought this a slight mistake in description. If you will turn to the text, Chapter I, you will find Trilby's feet referred to in George Du Maurier's own words: "The shape of those lovely slender feet (that were neither large nor small...
...discovered the charms of 18½?? Harry Truman himself. On Jan. 17 he offered the figure as a compromise in the steel controversy. Its upward curve proved just right: plump enough for Phil Murray (who had demanded 25? an hour), slender enough for Ben Fairless (who had refused to give more than 15?). The perfect 18½ has been the darling of most strike arbiters ever since...
...weeks to its season so that everyone who wanted to could see Margot Fonteyn in Tchaikovsky's ballet, The Sleeping Beauty. One fact every critic noted and agreed on-Fonteyn had the handsomest legs in English ballet. W. J. Turner wrote: "English dancers in general are of more slender, more graceful, more mobile physique than Italian and French dancers. You will not find among them-men or women-these grand-piano legs." Margot credits Sadler's Wells, not the English climate. Says she: "Bad training develops big leg muscles. Most of us have slim legs...
...family and caste tradition he should have been a sailor. Because Spain was too poor to afford any more naval officers, he became a soldier. From seaside El Ferrel, in his native Galicia, he went to the Alcazar military school in Toledo. In 1912, at 20, he was a slender, shiny-eyed captain getting his baptism of fire and helping carve a new Spanish empire in Morocco...