Word: slenderness
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...news tips reached Manhattan, last week, that slender, weak-chinned King Alfonso XIII had asserted himself, at last, over Spain's paunchy and ruthless Dictator, General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. The Associated Press thought that soon Don Miguel "may be replaced"; and other news services carried similar stories...
Rollin Kirby, ace of Democratic cartoonists, is as fertile as he is facile. A slender little Scot, he sits under the gilded dome of the Pulitzer Building and does his job with dour thoroughness. He learned his line and perhaps some of his satirical sharpness under the late great Artist Whistler. His method is the oldtime one of standardizing the figures he seeks to flay. His corpulent, fat-jowled metaphor for the G. O. P. has became almost as well-known as was the late Thomas Nast's moneybag effigy of Boss Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby...
...things in the water are magnified 100 times, or cubically a million times. What is silky green scum in ponds of spirogyra, is reproduced as great, slender stems with tubular strands. Water thyme has slender pointed leaves and graceful translucent green stems. Bladderwort carries little traps at the ends of stems. Really they are the size of pin heads. Enlarged they are three to four inches in diameter. When an animalcule touches the bladder (utricle) a flap snaps upwards; the beastie slips into the pouch; the trap springs shut...
...answer is that he is a slender, grey-crested person with a Romish nose and a sartorial perfection suggestive of the stage. Who the hell is he? He was born on the Mother Lode of California 59 years ago and one of his parents had Mayflower ancestors. He is one of those persons who has been vaguely "associated with" and "closely allied with" various famous people. His biography gives a onetime State Engineer of New York, the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, and the late Major-General Leonard Wood, as references. He "has travelled in many parts...
...almost unprecedented opportunity to show his metal. He is the new Commodore of the N. G. I.* Line. He is new on the Manhattan route. Until last week he had been engaged in taking poor Italians to South America, bringing rich Argentines to Europe. Commodore Taraboth is lithe, slender, quick, with pointed mustachios fascinating to Signoras. He did all he could, all anyone could, to save Miss Moore...