Word: slenderness
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...stage of Poll's Theatre, Washington, last week. It was the first concert of the Washington Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of Kurt J. Hetzel, promised since early last summer to the only city of its size and development not possessing a permanent, flourishing orchestra. Conductor Hetzel, tall, slender, dynamic, had had his men together for only five ensemble rehearsals. Nevertheless they played creditably, excellently, an exacting if not unhackneyed program, which included Liszt's "Les Preludes," Tschaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and the Tannhauser Overture...
...shape, it was a 13-page pamphlet, 3½ inches wide, 5½ inches long. How big will an encyclopedia be when shrunk for the Fiskoscope? No bigger than an ordinary novel. The Oxford Dictionary? A trifling brochure. The works of Balzac, of James Fenimore Cooper, of Thackeray, Scott, James Joyce? Slender dockets. Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf will melt to the thickness of a few packs of cards and those advertisement-readers who seek culture for ten minutes a day can carry whole libraries in their waistcoat pockets...
Predominating in this new structure of Gothic architecture will be the large Book Tower, 192 feet tall and 85 feet square. The massiveness of the tower will be relieved by slender lancet windows medieval ornament and allegorical sculpture. In front of the Book Tower will be the entrance tower, slightly less than half as tall and wide. The entrance will have the shape of a tall carved arch with ornamental iron gates. The beauty of the smaller arch will be greatly enhanced by numerous exquisite stained glass windows...
...round" or "short." He is tallest of all the large groups of white men. His hair is medium in color, rarely bright blond in adults, almost never black. His eyes tend to be "medium," that is, light brown rather than dark brown or bright blue. He is sinewy and slender in youth, not rawboned and gangling or fat and pudgy...
...before he married her. Even their boy's paternity was unknown to him. He had married her, not only for her transcendent, slender beauty, but because she asked him to. She had turned to him because his mental poise made other men seem as children...