Word: slenderness
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...appearance, today, of the Kirkland House Alumni News is a milepost in the development of the House Plan, an indication whose significance is deeper than the six mimeographed pages of "general interest" notes would at first suggest. Beneath the informal, chatty nature of this slender publication lies, in an essential way, all that is implicit in the term "House," all that the founders of the House Plan have hoped...
...porcelain-topped table and the voice of the surgeon, muffled through a gauze mouth bandage, calling sharply for instruments. A bronchoscope, a long mirrored tube, is inserted in the patient's throat and a rod bearing a tiny electric light bulb dropped down. From the sidelines a slender figure muffled in gauze darts forward to squint for perhaps half a minute down the bronchoscope, then back to her sketching pad and color box to draw as quickly as possible the infected tonsils, the tumor, or whatever it is that is being operated on. The next morning she will hand...
...famed Grunewald Hotel, paying for it with Liberty Bonds dug out of a safety deposit box. They rebuilt it as the Roosevelt, "biggest hotel in the Deep South." Mike Moss, a tun-bellied man with a tiny bald head, was made manager. The Vaccaros backed Union Indemnity with slender, bespectacled, drawling Brother Irving Moss as president. New Orleans, where race is viewed frankly, chuckled: "Watch what happens now! The Jews have got their hooks in the Dagoes...
Oddly enough, the people have not sufficiently appreciated the ingenious solutions of the militant dry crusader. However, she should not lose courage. Twenty years hence, the young girls of today, still slender if Mrs. Peabody's latest movement is successful, will chip in and have a statue made of this twentieth century reformer. Brewers will, without thinking, curse Mrs. Peabody. They are a simple group if they do, for they can very easily change their occupation to that of the wine and whiskey manufacturers. As Mrs. Peabody pointed out, it was beer that caused most of the drunkenness...
...Finland was the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland and its beloved "National Shrine" was the high-spired, ancient Lutheran Church at Kolpana which is now in Russia. Spurred by Christmas a pack of zealous Godless comrades, protected by Red Soldiers, rushed upon Finland's Shrine. They called its slender pinnacle "dangerous to Soviet military aviation," ordered appropriate action...