Word: slim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife, a slim, handsome woman, entertained well and blended perfectly into crowds at country-club dances. He had three healthy children, two automobiles (a 1946 Buick and a 1948 Austin), and an old but suitably located eleven-room house on Staten Island. He was a tireless member of clubs, banking associations, civic committees and charity organizations...
Seated massively at his desk that day in 1905, John Pierpont Morgan seemed lost in thought. He hardly even bothered to look up when his nephew Junius appeared before him with a slim, grey-eyed girl in tow. "Uncle," said Junius, "this is Miss...
...civically conscious. Purdue's Engineering Dean Andrey Potter contended that engineering schools today respected the humanities. Purdue's average engineering student, he said, spends four-fifths of his time on his specialty, and one-fifth on the humanities, i.e., the rest of the universe. Even this slim ration is considerably cut by many schools...
Casino audiences, with Denmark's Queen Alexandrine, Britain's Lord Mountbatten and France's Maurice Chevalier, among others, floating in & out, had first heard a week of French music, a week of Italian music, and an English week. For the semaine americaine, slim, nervous Conductor Jascha Horenstein was having his troubles...
...never before tried the big, dramatic tenor role of Radames; Toscanini's favorite soprano, red-haired Herva Nelli, who had had to hold herself in as Desdemona in his 1947 broadcast of Otello, was getting a chance to open up as Aida. He had picked three newcomers: slim Norwegian Contralto Eva Gustavson (Amneris), who arrived in the U.S. last October, young Canadian Bass-Baritone Dennis Harbour (the King of Egypt), who a fortnight ago won the Met's radio auditions, and Soprano Teresa Randall (the Priestess), a finalist in the same contest. Baritone Giuseppe Valdengo (Amonasro), big Bass...