Word: slenderness
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...liberal churchman rather than a Catholic as it has usually done. Last week, after lengthy consideration, the vestry made known its choice, a broad churchman who is nonetheless Catholic enough to suit Bishop Manning who immediately confirmed the appointment. He is Rev. Dr. Frederic Sydney Fleming, 46, a slender, six-foot, bespectacled clergyman who began his career as a baker's assistant, became assistant to the president of big National Biscuit Co. before studying for the ministry at Western Theological Seminary and Nashotah House (Anglo-Catholic) in Wisconsin...
...height and over 160 pounds in weight. From those figures, it maybe deduced that, although men of Harvard of today are heavier than their fathers, their increase in weight has not been commensurate with their increase in height. In other words, Harvard men are growing taller and more slender...
...realize all its possibilities, mingling with students, pouring a few ideas into the impressionable void. For the best resident tutors, men who take the second attitude, the future holds little. Being a good fellow, drinking cocktails adolescents, does not write books, further research, or win a professorial chair. The slender stipend does not mount into a fortune which allows marriage or retirement, and the pleasure of sitting in a black tie at high table palls...
...heaven to send him rain! Hoover waits for prosperity while the present regime only increases the starvation of millions of people." Observers turned from such Soviet birthday talk to scan the Soviet record: Russia's 15 Red Years began with a prelude on Oct. 26, 1917 when slender, semitic, smouldering-eyed Leon Trotsky (né Bronstein) harangued the existing Petrograd workers' Soviet (council) into passing a resolution that Trotsky & Friends should take supreme military command, replacing Alexander Kerensky's wavering authority in Petrograd...
First to issue an official statement was the Hoover Administration. In Washington slender. Hawaiian-born Under Secretary of State Castle announced that the Administration's reaction to what he called M. Herriot's "distinct contribution to the problem of arms reduction," is "friendly and favorable...