Word: slenderness
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...Harnasie are wild mountaineers in the Carpathians. Szymanowski lived with them for long periods, decided to write a ballet-pantomime full of their folk dances, a wedding, a drinking song. All these he strung together on a slender thread of plot about a mountain chief who abducts a girl. In Carnegie Hall the work was not pantomime, but the rich singing of the Art of Musical Russia chorus made it splendidly dramatic...
...readers of 1987, Manager Lindner had another prophetic sketch prepared. This showed the great Golden Gate Bridge fallen in neglected ruins, San Francisco's skyscrapers abandoned, the city housed in vast, uniform, flat-topped buildings; an "Orient Express" plane arriving at an airport on top of a slender, mile-high column while a "lunar local" rocket-ship takes off below; a teacher & class flying around under their own power on "magnetic refractor shoes." In the accompanying text a German professor is credited with having removed, by a magical serum, "all dishonesty, crime and conflict from the human brain...
...said unhappy Robert Allan Pinkerton, 33, a slender Harvardman who quit his New York Stock Exchange seat to take over the family business only year and a half...
...vendors at Manhattan's Yankee Stadium and Polo Grounds received more ($30,000 to $34,999) than Pitchers Lefty Gomez ($20,000) and Carl Hubbell ($17,500). From Hal Roach Studios fat Funnyman Oliver Hardy had received only about half as much ($85,316) as his slender colleague Stan Laurel ($156,266). Henry Ford drew no salary from Ford Motor Co., while Son Edsel's $100,376 was topped by Ford's Vice President P. E. Martin ($128,008) and General Manager Charles E. Sorensen ($115,100). Pundit Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald Tribune made...
...sinner! consider the fearful danger you are in. 'Tis a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit. . . that you are held over in the hand of God. . . You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it and ready every moment to singe it and burn it asunder; and you have. . . nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath. . . nothing that you have ever done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment...