Word: slenderness
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Cyrus E. Woods, slender, gray-suited, American Ambassador to Madrid; Colonel George Harvey, tall, horn-spectacled, with square-topped derby; Alanson B. Houghton, clean-shaven, florid and grave, Ambassador to Berlin, came down the gangplank of the George Washington together, back from Europe with the usual Ambassadorial truisms...
...bicycling are dusting out their abandoned quarters and planning new trips, according to the Manchester papers, while Easter turned out to be largely a bicycle parade. Perhaps, with this reappearance of a sport of a generation ago, will return the other means our fathers took to keep their waistline slender...
...nearly as distinct as that of her versatile husband. George Kaufman and Marc Connolly, too, are usually here; and John Peter Toohy, press agent, author of a novel and of plays. Of such is "The Round Table." Otherwise at the Algonquin: The Rascoes, Hazel and Burton-Burton, a nervous, slender figure, vigorously collecting gossip for his column in the Sunday Tribune; Carl Van Vechten, imposing, with white hair and youthful face, bitter with his tongue, clever with the somewhat too facile pen which gave to his Peter Whiffle more charm than power or plan, is here, and with him, perhaps...
Here is a slender youth manfully turning a large spoked wheel by jerks and tugs. You say he is preparing for a sailor's career at the helm of a bounding bark. It may be that he is only the prospective owner of a small car. Over there, a future commuter is practicing strap hanging by chinning himself with one hand slowly but firmly over a horizontal bar. Later on he will turn a few handsprings on the mats. (The children in the party will enjoy this...
Here is a slender volume, exquisitely printed, containing twenty-six poems--the one from which the book takes its name and twenty-five lyrics of amazing craftsmanship and power. It is called, unnecessarily. "Priapus and the Pool" Uncouth., essentially Roman divinity, Priapus seems of late to have gained many followers far afield both in literature and music. But those who grub in books for the unwholesome or the obscene (Vice Commissioners take note!) will be deeply disappointed by the sheer beauty of these poems. The title is inappropriate. The poems themselves are as lovely as any love-lyrics I know...