Word: slim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...semiweekly visits to his office as "interviews" (TIME, Feb. 13), newsgatherers last week refrained entirely from submitting written questions. It was the end of a custom six years old. To take its place, President Coolidge instituted a voluntary announcement system. The effect was dull. After gazing mutely at the slim, deliberate fingers on the neat Executive desk; at the immobile Executive countenance, over which the skin is so much more loose and translucent than shows in photographs, the newsgatherers shuffled out with nothing more significant to report than that the President would sail to Alexandria, Va. (18 miles from Washington...
...Lights flash up, blazing upon countless gems. The Peers and Peeresses rustle as they rise and bow. Majestically the King enters. As he paces slowly forward, his crown is a mount of diadems, his train seems to stretch behind inimitably, borne by chubby pages with neat legs and little slim Court swords. His Majesty is England, rich, historic. When he speaks, his Dominions will listen, in their newness and youth...
Fiend Crowe is 35, 5 ft. 5 in. tall, slim, weighs 140 Ibs. His hair is black and kinky, his eyebrows heavy, his ears big, his eyes maroon. He can change his skin color. It is normally brown. But at times he makes it appear lighter with a chemical, at other times darker with a lotion. The Tribune's squad of man-and-news hunters have been unable to find him during five months search. He had disappeared well...
Marshal Chiang Kaishek, political chieftain and military generalissimo of the Nationalist Government at Nanking, finally convoked last week the long expected Nationalist Party Congress (TIME, Jan. 2, Jan. 9) with only 25 of the expected 36 major delegates present. Standing before them, Chiang seemed more than ever slim, boyish and somehow brittle; but his prestige is that of the man who led a peasant and proletarian army to the conquest of half of China (TIME, Dec. 13, 1926). The partial collapse of that avowedly revolutionary movement and its diversion into a moderate and narrower channel resulted, last week...
...opportunity, which flowered last week, of expounding and testing their theories from the part of Power. Cannily watching the situation and holding a salutary whip hand are a group of enlightened Conservatives who are adding to the 61 pink votes their own and thus giving the new Cabinet a slim majority. As Premier the pinks have put forward former Speaker of the Storting, Christopher Hornsrud, veteran of many a stormy debate...