Word: slenderness
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...Parker, 32 years old, tall, slender, brown-haired and blue-eyed, once Under Secretary of the U. S. Treasury (a special post created for him) is one of the most important men in Europe and perhaps the most powerful man in Germany. Under the title of Agent General of Reparations, he is responsible for the collection and distribution of moneys paid under the Experts' Plan by Germany on account of reparations. The degree of his power can be gauged by the fact that these moneys, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, are credited to a reparations account...
...GUARDSMAN−Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne and the Theatre Guild cast cooperate to make a slender Molnar comedy of off-stage actor life a distinguished entertainment...
...Poems. Narratives inform the body of Robinson Jeffers' verse. Tamar, of which the above are the opening lines, unrolls a tragedy of incest, Hebraic in origin (II Samuel xiii), Greek in treatment. Tamar Cauldwell, slender virgin in a rotting house, makes her brother her lover, takes another lover to shade the fruit of her sin. The ghost of old Caukler's incestuous sister?returning through the trances of a fat psychic aunt, Stella, and the gibbering of an idiot aunt, "poor Jinny" ?torments Tamar, tells her a curse is in her blood, inescapable, unclean. Tamar, fearless and fire-souled...
...unique. He [Dr. Eliot] who transformed a little New England college into one of the foremost universities of the world stood alone. And so it is with Briggs, the man he chose for dean; Briggs, also, stands alone. "Who that saw the Commencement of 1900 can forget the slender, slightly bent figure that stood almost shrinking while Eliot spoke, the bowed head, the downcast eyes-and the cheers that shook the theatre? " Le Baron Russell Briggs.' A wondrous voice rang out the words. Le Baron Russell Briggs. The well-beloved dean of Harvard College, patient, tender, discerning, candid, just...
...composer of this singularly unoriginal fable was the facile A. A. Milne. His slender and seductive touch for dialog was never needed more. Generally, it was equal to the crisis. Pondering over the entire problem, one can conclude that A. A. Milne, the Theatre Guild and Laura Hope Crews are a trio that has done so many things thoroughly well that anything they do must be of genial consequence...