Word: slim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of Harvard Lowella used to shudder, sometimes at the same time drawing the ermine wrap about her slim young shoulders, just to prove she knew her Katherine Brush. And never were her sensibilities so ravished as when she walked through the Yard at noon. Now all that will be changed. For, though the world of Beacon Hill laughed, and some of those who knew seem to have pitied, recognition of the Cabot pleadings has come at last...
...Bonus Bill over his veto, both houses have had the bit in their teeth and have raced through a series of tax reduction, naval appropriation and other measures with complete desregard for his views. The "Big Stick" of Roosevelt's day has been pared down to a slim wand totally lacking in either persuasive or coercive powers...
...first monologue of the series appeared originally in magazine form. The story runs that his publishers cabled Author Lewis suggesting that they set it up in slim book form and sell it for a dollar. The cabled answer: "Hold off. I'll send you more of the same, and we'll sell...
...private life, Doris Stevens, slim, comely, energetic, is the wife of that famed courtroom dandy, Divorce Lawyer Dudley Field Malone...
...nearer the audience, enlarging and slightly blurring the pictures, giving a visual sensation that is like watching the gods at play. Adroitly filmed, from every angle, is The Trail of '98. Then too it contains, in the role of Swedish gold seeker, the laughably lank Karl Dane (famed as Slim in The Big Parade...