Word: slenderness
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Almost every woman I know wears a shoe size between six and eight. I could name 20 personable young women, average height and slender, whose feet couldn't be fitted in less than a six and a half. Even a 5-ft., 90-pounder wears size five...
Last month a slender, exuberant blonde of 33 sailed from Manhattan with a gold medal around her neck, a Spanish husband in tow and a contract for three operatic performances at London's historic Covent Garden. Grace Moore had won the medal for her cinema performance in One Night of Love. Her Covent Garden contract was signed because Londoners were ready to buy camp stools, wait in line 24 hours for tickets to see and hear this U. S. singer...
...Arbor, Mich. 10,000 spectators at the 35th annual Western Conference meet last week saw the most amazing individual performance in the history of U.S. track & field sports. Slender, coffee-colored Jesse Owens, 21-year-old Ohio State Sophomore, tied one world's record, broke three, and emerged from the meet indisputably the ablest all-around track athlete currently functioning in the U.S. His records: 20.3 sec. for the 220-yd. dash (old record: 20.6 sec.); 22.6 sec. for the 220-yd. low hurdles (old record: 23 sec.); 26 ft., 8¼ in. for the broad jump (old record...
Most acid Chamberman was Forney Johnston, slender, sharp-nosed Birmingham lawyer who has led the power fight against Tennessee Valley Authority. Calling the New Deal "a witch's dance of uncoordinated legislation" and referring to "the house-top Allah shoutings of Mr. Ickes and other impeccables," he snapped: "If business is vicious, it has required a century and a half to discover...
...rather momentous in the artistic world. Visitors wandered about regarding the pieces with that half-lethargic curiosity usually accorded the great; and several, ruminatively twisting their printed guides into cones or corkscrews, paid particular homage to a work consisting of a girl, finely poised on her toss and with slender arms flung high...