Word: slenderness
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...lately, they found out what was going on. Any thriving magazine has a constant demand for back numbers. Thrifty, self-respecting publishers are at pains to recover all unsold or undelivered copies. The National Publishers Association registered a sharp protest with Postmaster-General Brown, who referred the matter to slender Arch Coleman, his First Assistant. Publishers were particularly agitated by the possibility that the Post Office was offering sales competition to authorized sales agents if. as the Kansas City advertisement said, there was "opportunity to purchase copies of current magazines at nominal cost." The publishers' first protest was made...
...While Prime Minister MacDonald was at the White House, waiting in Manhattan for his turn to see President Hoover was a slender little gentleman who looked not unlike a brownskin edition of Secretary Mellon (but with wider lips). This, a very finicky gentleman with his own chef, an imposing retinue of secretaries, an in come of $3,000,000 per year and a family tree 900 years old, was the much-married Maharajah of Kapurthala in the Punjab, accredited representative to the League of Nations of Their Highnesses the Indian ruling princes. Precisely what he wished to discuss with President...
Eight o'clock on the evening of Moving Day found 300,000 pilgrims gathered under the red-leaved maples of the sacred grove. A slender bamboo fence surrounded both old temple and new. Guards in medieval armor were stationed along the line with fire torches flaring against the evening sky. Another fence inside the old temple surrounded the mirror. Just outside this fence stood grizzled Yuko Hamaguchi, Prime Minister of Japan, his Cabinet and members of the official party. Inside the fence in the temple stood Prince Kuni, Imperial Messenger, and the High Priest with his assistants. The High...
...Arthur Brisbane as one case where a rich man's son has not been a loafer. Silent, clever, he has originated many an advertising idea. Last year he saw a fat woman munching what he presumed to be either a sweet or a pickle while nearby was a slender girl smoking a cigaret. Thenceforth came a sales-slogan ("Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet") on which millions were spent. Whether or not Mr. Hill is personally responsible for the newest Lucky Strike campaign ("An ancient prejudice has been removed") is not known. One explanation...
...does not drink, smoke, or chew. He likes to walk, dislikes to golf. He has not played cards for 30 years, but enjoys hearing music. In physique he is small, slender. His nickname, ''Baldy," has a certain amount of justification, what hairs remain are greying. Every Sunday he goes to the Presbyterian Church...