Word: slim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wears a skullcap. Loved by many, twitted by many more, Charles W. Bryan, onetime Governor, Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1924, brother of the late Great Commoner, he had tried to come back in the gubernatorial race, but was defeated by Governor Adam McMullen by a slim margin...
...Last week Arizona performed eie of its habitual acts; elected George Wylie Paul Hunt, Democrat, to the Governorship for the sixth time. His majority was slim. Only one other man, (Thomas E. Campbell) has ever been Governor of Arizona since it became a state in 1912. Question: Wherefore the long-lasting potency of Governor Hunt? Perhaps it is because he was as strong as an ox and is as bald as a turtle; more likely it is because he has grown with Arizona and shaped it. In 1881 he arrived in Globe, Ariz., at the age of 21, penniless, professionless...
...given a frenzied welcome. Rain fell at midnight. It was still falling in the afternoon. Standing on the pitcher's mound, the only dry spot on the field, Jesse Haines, a garage keeper from Phillipsburg, Ohio, held the Yankees to five hits. Still unsatisfied, he grasped a slim yellow bat and drove one of the deliveries of his opponent, furtive "Dutch" Ruether, into the right-field bleachers for a home run. Score: St. Louis, 4; New York...
...fourth quarter, a five yard penalty and an incomplete pass forced the Freshmen to punt to Exeter's 14-yard line. On the first play, Coombs, Exeter quarterback, fumbled, and while recovering the ball was upset by two Crimson-jerseyed tacklers behind his own goal-line. On this slim advantage did the margin of Crimson victory rest...
...tangibility of unsatisfactory reality. The senile Earl, convinced that she is some patrician Griselda of fifty years ago, takes her into the ancient garden and loads her with roses; and the barmaid's grand-daughter feeling the aristocratic half of her ancestry partakes momentarily in all the slim, high haughtiness that must have been Griselda's. At the other end of the scale stands Miss Tiverton's black cat, sleek and scornful the most satisfactory cat since Dick Whittington's day. Neither Juliet nor the reader ever sees Miss Tiverton, but the black cat, sunning himself on the wall between...