Word: slim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY?English accents and English wit in a slim comedy of stolen pearls. Ina Claire and Roland Young...
...Manhattan, her third trip to the city but the premier under her new skipper, Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, one of the Navy's most experienced dirigible pilots. Pressing her untremulous way through the foggy May firmament, the silver bulk appeared at times to be perilously near the slim shafts of downtown skyscrapers. Assembled at their posts were 14 survivors of last summer's Shenandoah disaster. Not least among these was the stern-visaged commander. He succeeds Captain George W. Steele Jr., who returns to the more substantial water...
...rides constantly on his own trains, studies them, studies commuters, calls his private car his "business" car. "There is nothing more important than accuracy," says Daniel Willard. His eyes flash, his slim figure, almost boyish 'at 65, straightens. He adds, "There is romance in this business...
...tall, slim, blond, virile, wise. He was Gustav V, King of Sweden. When he called incognito, silk-hatted, frock-coated, at the Wilhelmstrasse Palace, Berlin, an entire company of the Reichswehr goosestepped to welcome the first monarch ever to visit a President of the Reich. Pleased, Paul von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg graciously entertained King Gustav...
When they came to disputed ballots ? there were some 16 different kinds of them ? the committee tried to interpret from the scrawls and scratchings the "intent" of the voter. Ultimately the committee decided, 10-1, that a slim majority of the voters had intended to vote for Steck, and it recommended to the Senate that Brookhart be unseated...