Word: slim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred Bowery bummers signed and sent a petition to Salvation Army authorities last week: "We, the undersigned, wish Isabella Austin to stay on the Bowery. She did a lot for us while she was here and we do not want to lose her." The girl, 19, blond, slim, small, cheery, had been giving street talks along the Bowery the past three months, had led many a corner prayer. But the strict Salvation Army rule, that workers must be frequently shifted to new localities, was behind her instructions to proceed to Morristown, N. J. Her orders not rescinded, she reported there...
Proportionate to the wealth of the U. S. and that of Japan, John Pierpont Morgan has been reputed comparatively less rich than Mme. Yone Suzuki, 73, "the wealthiest woman in Japan." Awful was the catastrophe last week when this frail, slim lady, garbed as always in the mode of old Nippon, announced briefly that the liabilities of Suzuki & Co. total one quarter of a billion dollars, and that the firm will temporarily suspend payment on certain of its obligations. The ensuing crash on the Tokyo bourse was similar to what might be expected in Wall Street should J. P. Morgan...
Advertising men hustled him to luncheon at the Manhattan Advertising Club. He gave them a tapestry for their club. Later he presented many a friend with a slim gilt-covered volume that he had written. It contained "epigrams" like the ones Charles Archbold of the National Refining Co. writes for the slate which the wooden boy holds up in front of National Refining gasoline stations. Samples of Sir Charles Frederick's wit: "Love is fanned by a bank draft"; "Crossed cheques cheer cross women"; "A leaf began the fall"; "A little blonde is a dangerous thing"; "There...
...York, angling for conductors for its orchestra, made the prize catch of the year. The directors announced that they had engaged Arturo Toscanini, world-famed Director of La Scala in Milan, as a regular conductor; he will lead the Philharmonic symphony in 41 concerts next season. Conductor Toscanini, slim, volatile, once successfully defied Il Duce; he is considered the world's finest leader of orchestras...
Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, the only Indian that ever graduated from Harvard, slim and imperious, strolled, for four years through the buildings which then composed Harvard College, or what is more likely, for he died of consumption almost immediately after taking his degree of Bachelor of Arts, sneaked along the wall of his private dormitory much more fearing than to be feared. Harvard never seemed to agree with Indian students for most of the ones who started, and there were quite a number 250 years ago, either died before they could take their degrees or returned to their native hunting ground before...