Word: slenderness
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...Fairchild thwacked the New Deal - for its conservatism. Historian Charles Austin Beard urged a democratic distribution of property. Editor of The Social Frontier and spearhead of the whole movement for a New Order through Education is George Sylvester Counts, 44, Professor of Education at Teachers College. He is a slender man of middle height with pompadoured brown hair, a deep voice, a bristly reddish mustache. Teachers Collegians flock to his classes. He is a prolific writer, can be counted on for a newsmaking speech at almost every educators' convention. He has taught Education at Yale, Harvard, University of Washington...
...opening of its orchestra season, Philadelphia had its own, its very own Leopold Stokowski. Slender and elegant as ever, he was bursting with energy. He had spent a quiet summer studying Persian music in the British Museum. But like any shrewd showman he first gave his subscribers just what they wanted: his own arrangement of Bach, a Beethoven symphony, a magnificent high-powered reading of Death and Transfiguration. Only flaw was the Prelude to Hans Pfitzner's long-winded Palestrina. But of that no one took much notice...
...Magnificenze!" the slender, dark-haired Italian threw out his hands in an all-expressive gesture. It was Luigi Beccali, Olympic champion in the 1500 meters, who was speaking to an inquisitive audience of Boston newspapermen in the smoke-filled track room at Dillon Field House...
...hurt and miserable. Alf becomes engaged to Laura, then is killed in a motorcycle accident. Loyal, devoted Ted marries Laura to give his name to Alf's unborn child. Writing his story in a manner reminiscent of Swinnerton's Nocturne, John Hampson has made much of decidedly slender material...
Captain Molyneux, an Irishman who was thrice wounded in the War and won a British Military Cross, is a favorite of young U. S. and English girls. In his grey-walled shop, his grey-clad -vendeuses specialize in selling slender evening gowns, tweed sports and town ensembles, nearly all designed by Molyneux himself...