Word: slenderness
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...lithe and slender it does not cost any more to join than the Red Cross does, and the need is nearly as great. For the heavyweights, who can't squeeze in, Otto has arranged for prompt and efficient mall delivery...
...Fortune's Maggot" rises like a slender and fragile tower out of the morass of modern fiction. Miss Warner, who was responsible for "Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman," is technically one of the most interesting authors now writing. Like Virginia Woolf, she never wastes a word. Each sentence is placed deftly, accurately; each paragraph is an exquisitely tooled bit. And like another woman writer, Willa Cather, she possesses a refreshing air of calm and quiet. When one reads her it is with a sense that the book is a treat; that it is of a rare vintage, not often...
...Mortlake, England, J. A. Brown stepped from a slender shell, grinned with gratification. Coxswain of the Cambridge University crew for four years, he had just participated in his fourth straight triumph over dark blue rivals from Oxford. The Oxford eight, conceded little chance to win, was kept in the 4¼-mile race mainly through the heroic efforts of Howard T. ("Ox") Kingsbury Jr. This gentleman, captain of last year's undefeated Yale crew, pulled a mighty oar, shouted encouragement to his wilting shell-mates, kept the winners' margin to an honorable three lengths. The Cambridge time...
...Pittsburgh's night-clubbers. Pittsburghers, righteously indignant, "canned" "Peaches," forced the cancellation of the contract. Meanwhile, Dr. Henry J. Schireson, Chicago plastic surgeon, surveyed the aforementioned nether limbs with interest; gossip said that "Peaches" agreed to pay him $10,000 to remove her acid burn scars and bring slender shapeliness to her amply-built legs...
...Walter J. Travis, onetime champion golfer, was in the habit of smoking long, slender, virulent stogies during his matches. The ventilation of these stogies, it was said, became especially active on the putting green. It was darkly hinted that the stogies lent Mr. Travis strength while temporarily discomfiting his rival...