Word: slenderness
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Last week a man got a job. He is a slender, witty young man of 44. He has had other jobs. Once he wrote songs, wrote "Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?" He wrote it for a show that failed, but he married the understudy of the leading lady, and the song made a hit; so his royalties were satisfactory. He had also a job with a subway company that did not build a subway. Then a very efficient political boss gave him a job in the state legislature, which he held for quite...
...Harriman is tall, slender, grave. Because she likes trees, she gave $80,000 to found a chair of Forestry at Yale; because she likes music, she is the founder and main support of the American Orchestral Society; because she appreciates art, she is planning to hold her trinational exhibition annually...
...more demonstrated her right to be known as a superlatively attractive person. Alexander Woollcott went so far in his commentary on the comedy as to call her the most charming person in Manhattan. As such she makes this play worthwhile. Shorn of her amazing personality it would be a slender, an insufficient venture...
Under a railroad trestle and down a rutty stretch of frost-baked road near Van Cortlandt Park, the Bronx, loped a slender runner in a crimson jersey. He crested a hill and the autumn wind reached for him, baffling his breath like a hand laid over his mouth; he twisted his head to look for a rangy man who had been running at his side. For about half an hour these two, accompanied by 106 other runners from various eastern colleges, had been racing against each other over a six-mile trail for the hill-and-dale intercollegiate championship...
King Tut had achieved little of manhood when he died. He was a slim lad, slender, sapplingesque. Nothing so became him as his burial. The world's chief artificers buzzed about him. They stretched him out. His hands, as tired as a pair of autumn leaves, they folded across his breast. Upon his head they set the royal golden diadem, the eager vulture (Nekhebet), the playful serpent (Buto). From his neck they suspended amuletic idols. Pectorals of elaborate cloisonne they strewed upon his breast. A star beaten out of golden foil marked the place where his heart had been...