Word: slenderness
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After the final curtain fell on the first performance, Miss Pinchot and Lady Diana were called out again and again. Miss Pinchot, a slender, vigorous nun, was a rare contrast to the stolid Teutonic actress Sari Fedak, whose interpretation is more familiar to European audiences...
...Minnigerode, setting aside any question of moral blame, criticized Jackson for his "impetuosity" and "slender knowledge of the law" for not first making sure that a divorce had been granted...
...Nassau. In front of the huge, garish Nassau Country Club at Glen Cove, L. I., William T. Tilden II played against a protégé of his, slender A. H. Chapin Jr., for the Nassau Challenge Cup. Protégé Chapin took four games in the first set. Then Tilden, remembering that youth will be served, began to serve cannonballs, to cut, chop, drive, until many thought that Chapin would cripple himself in his wild nourishes at mocking tennis balls. Tilden won the next 15 games, the match...
Women's Western. Rain-sopped women stood waiting in the Riverside Country Clubhouse (Riverside, 111.). Entered to them a dusky-haired, comely young woman choking back a smile. The gathering chuckled, cackled, congratulated the young woman, then stood quiet while a chairwoman gave her a tall, slender silver cup. That night the young woman, Mrs. Silvan L. Reinhart (nee Elaine Rosenthal), of Hubbard Woods, Ill., discussed with her husband, "Spider" Reinhart, onetime Yale end, the ups, downs, ins and outs whereby she had successfully defended her Women's Western Golf Championship, through rain and wind, against a field...
...dusky-haired, comely young woman ... a tall slender silver...