Word: slenderness
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Born in 1774, slender, brilliantly dark-eyed Elizabeth Ann Bayley, reports Father Feeney, was the most beautiful debutante of Manhattan in her day. One of her distant relatives is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She was born a Protestant, married a handsome merchant, William Seton, bore him five children. They went to Italy to improve his frail health, instead were taken off their ship at Livorno and quarantined in a lazaretto because yellow fever had broken out before they left Manhattan. Cold, underfed, Elizabeth made no complaint but prayed in their dungeon while in the next room hard-bitten sailors cursed...
...Method is simplicity itself: insertion of a big hollow needle through a quarter-inch puncture into the cavity of the abdomen. The mobility of the liver, stomach, intestines, bladder, ovaries and womb is such that Dr. Ruddock can poke them around by means of a slender telescope inserted through the hollow needle. He can inspect them by the aid of electric lights placed at the tip of the telescope. swallowed into the stomach, or received into the colon. By means of special nippers he can snip out a piece of suspect tissue from an internal organ, immediately seal the wound...
Paris. He quickly closed a bargain by which the ten-year-old, still unfinished and partly empty Pennsylvania Museum would store the famed Gangnat Renoirs free, with the privilege of exhibiting them when it pleased. Slender, black-eyed M. Gangnat took the opportunity of visiting the U. S. and last week was in Manhattan on his way to Hollywood...
...Justice Holmes is built into the structure of our national life, and has written himself into the slender volume of the literature of all time," stated Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, concluding a series of three lectures on "The Court and Mr. Justice Holmes" last night in the New Lecture Hall...
...fell into the ocean and sank a considerable distance, whereupon "a most lovely apparition with streaming hair glided toward him. She had eyes of the deepest blue. Her skin reminded him of a luscious peach. Most wondrous of all was her body. It tapered off into a slender curve, which sparkled and reflected every color...