Word: slenderness
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...least there seems to be some value in a demonstration in which they exhibited: a three-quarter bed which constricts itself into a slender couch, two chiffoniers which measure eight inches and twenty inches in width, a reading table for the bed with top the size of a dinner plate, chairs no more rugged than most people's bridge tables, vases and lamps which economize themselves as they go skyward as rapidly as Gothic spires...
...ship bound for Boston steamed into port. Leys was determined to board it for the homeward trip. He got a job helping to unload, and found that his chances of shipping aboard the vessel were very slender, as it already had one man, a stowaway, in irons to prevent his slipping ashore. There was nothing to do but wait for the next ship, while Plumer, wherever he might have been, made his way toward the goal...
...women whose earned income exceeds $10,000 a year. Here and there one finds a woman capitalist like Mrs. Edward Harriman, who last week received the honorary degree of Master of Letters from New York University. Mrs. Harriman is a discerning patron of the arts and sciences, an elderly, slender and competent person who helped her famed husband in his ventures and is now the sole executrix of $140,000,000, the largest fortune controlled by any woman in the world. But since this fortune derived originally from her husband, his widow cannot take rank among those women who made...
Active Painter Clivette is in attendance at the show, slender wiry, electrical, his hands like names. To illustrate motion, he will balance an umbrella on his goateed chin before a canvas. "After 40 years of tossing knives into the air you learn light and motion," says...
Practicabilities. The-fastest liner in the world is the 30,704-ton Mauretania with a superlative speed of but 27 knots. Only frail, slender destroyers attain the proposed velocity of Signer Mussolini's liners, already christened by rumor the Duce and the Rex. Allegedly an Italian inventor has conceived the idea of supplementing the stern propellers with additional propulsive apparatus to be placed along the sides of the new ships. Reputedly Signor Mussolini is ready to sacrifice all cargo space to engines, subsidize the ships, and use them only for express passenger and mail service. At such a cost...