Word: slenderness
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Behind the Front. A burlesque war picture seems slender stuff after The Big Parade. If that homeric comedy had not been made, Behind the Front would probably be called a fairly funny slapstick show with Wallace Beery principally concerned...
...LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY- Ina Claire and an astonishingly capable troupe in a slender but scintillating tale of English country life...
...figure to enter the ring when the evening's feature bout was announced. Old eyes were confused by a ghostly image that arose out of the real man that stood there (Bob Fitzsimmons Jr.), the image of another* baldish, freckle-shouldered fighter in whose whiplike arms, thin waist and slender legs lurked terrible punching power. The real man that was seen by younger eyes had thicker legs and more reddish hair than his father, but not quite that look of Irish lightning on the leash. But there was great cheering, and more when Jack Delaney entered the ring with some...
...Capper is 60, slender, affects no polish of dress or manner, neither is he an aggressive type. He looks "like a country editor, grown into large estate"?and he is. He began life by learning typesetting on a small Kansas newspaper; he graduated into editorial work, became a reporter, city editor, Washington correspondent, publisher. He owns nine farm papers, with a combined weekly circulation of 1,500,000. He owns the Topeka Daily Capital, on which he began as a typesetter, besides another daily in Kansas City, a political weekly with a circulation of 600,000, and a "home...
...journeyers came to pay their respects to the dignified lady of 64, Theodore Roosevelt's second wife, mother of five of his six children, the same lady who in the first decade of the century, slender featured, fair skinned, a lover of out of doors and a delicate pianist, presided gracefully over the White House...