Word: slenderness
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...have found most Winsorites, contrary to the aforementioned opinion, quite slender, and much too polite to shriek with delight. And we have never encountered any difficulty in recognizing them as the female of the species; perhaps this difficulty is wholly confined to the friends of the "Crime" editor. And we don't think remarks of that sort have any place around Harvard...
...pump like Viscount Castlereagh? Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout and spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood...
Last week another John Gay, a Wisconsin politician, made a slurring speech at Waukesha. At a Republican rally where 2,300 citizens were assembled, John Brigg Gay, tall, slender, military, a champion marksman, popular with his fellow War veterans, got up to explain why he should be elected to Congress- a job for which he was defeated two years ago. G. O. Partisan Gay spoke for a full hour, while John Chapple. Republican nominee for Senator (see above), waited his turn and the crowd grew restive. The interminable flow of oratory went on until suddenly Nominee Gay had everyone...
...Federal agents went to work on the case of Charles F. Urschel, Oklahoma City oilman, kidnapped in July 1933. After his release, Urschel recalled hearing a plane flying over his hideaway regularly at certain times of day. Working on that slender clue, the Government men tracked down Harvey Bailey on the Texas farm where Urschel had been held, found Mr. & Mrs. George R. ("Machine Gun") Kelly in Memphis. All three, with two accomplices, were given life sentences by a Federal judge in Oklahoma City. Bailey and Kelly are at Alcatraz Island, Calif...
...Tall, slender, patrician-looking President Bryan, 63, can match his college's ancient traditions, its new vigor. At one of the weekly gatherings in Richmond of his old, proud family, a guest once asked a prim maiden Stewart if she were descended from Scotland's royal family. "On the contrary," replied she, "the Kings of Scotland are descended from...