Word: slenderness
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...quick succession last week: 1 ) when the swank Knoedler Galleries opened their season with an exhibition of 21 flower paintings by the wife of a Hollywood producer. and 2) when the paintings turned out to be not so bad. Mrs. Bessie Lasky is the wife of Mr. Jesse Lasky. Slender, pale, serene, with curly Titian hair and a love of Chinese pajamas, she has been painting ever since the Laskys became prosperous about 15 years ago. Of her subjects she says: "I understand flowers better than anything else. To me they are human-as human as people.'' Also...
...Japan could not but suspect "secret clauses" which might eventually bring Russia into the war. Entirely bloodless but saddest incident of the week for Japan was the announcement that since the war began she has had to export over $65,000,000 worth of gold. This brought her slender gold reserve down to a still slenderer...
...Justices for the Supreme Court, the greater part of his Majority would have rallied round him. Instead, their overtures rejected, the moderates became irreconcilables. When finally the President yielded, gave Leader Robinson a free hand to work out any compromise possible, the chance of doing so had grown slender. When Congress convened, Leader Robinson predicted that it would have successfully adjourned by June...
...Dresses for daytime are slender, simply draped, with skirts still moderately short. Waistlines follow the designer's whim...
...lead in the play We Americans. The play was a hit and Muni's future was virtually assured. Success did not change him much. He did not gamble or drink or imitate the ways of the Gentiles. For several years he had been married to a slender, dark-eyed girl named Bella Finkel who had played opposite him in the Yiddish Theatre. After We Americans, Muni Weisenfreund went to Hollywood where, renamed Paul Muni, he made The Valiant and Seven Faces, neither of which won him cinema fame. He returned to Broadway in 1931 for the smash success Counsellor...