Word: slenderness
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Politics had nothing to do with the Mitchell appointment, because he boasts that he is an "oldfashioned independent Democrat," except that he voted for Hughes in 1916, Coolidge in 1924, Hoover in 1928. Slender, brown-eyed, gently persuasive in manner, a sailor of summer boats on White Bear Lake, Minn., Mr. Mitchell is a practicing Dry, a Presbyterian...
...slender, black-haired Manhattanite, Racqueteer Sheldon learned at Eton his fast, dashing, strong-on-the-backhand game...
...Root went away the President must have noticed that his step was like a girl's, his slender shoulders unbroken by time. Newsgatherers flocked about the departing Elder Statesman. Did he think, they asked, the World's Court rules could be so changed as to insure American membership...
...conferees included all the great Provincial Governors?hitherto semiautonomous "War Lords" in their own districts?and was chairmanned by the Nationalist conqueror of all China, spry, slender little Marshal Chiang Kai-shek who is now President...
...sculpture, mirrored the temper of the man. He was compact, robust, wiry, alive with energy. His head was squarely, ruggedly shaped, with abundant hair swooping up in a reckless, leonine pompadour. He dressed with what Sculptor Davidson called "careless fastidiousness." Indicative of inward sensitiveness, his fingers were long and slender; his feet, always in glossy shoes, were unusually small...