Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slim, 15-year-old Betty Jaynes (Betty Jane Schultz) stayed abed much of the week, kept silent a full day previous to her debut with the Chicago City Opera Company as tuberculous Mimi in La Boheme. So ably did she sing that she won 21 curtain calls, unanimous praise from Chicago critics, brought the orchestra cheering to its feet, two pleading cinemagents to hers...
...McGrady, slim, dapper and energetic, Jersey City-born and South Boston-bred, has had a long career on the inside of both labor and politics. Although he looks like a man in his forties, he was already 22 years old when he got a job as a pressman on the Boston Herald 42 years ago. A good backslapper and able talker, he rose to head the local union, was spotted by George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen's Union, who picked him as an organizer. Berry, who belongs to the school of polished labor leaders, insisted...
...Belgium last week the vaguely liberal Cabinet of Premier-Professor Paul van Zeeland was physically threatened by sleek and slim young Leon Degrelle and his Rexists, the newly potent Belgian Catholic-Fascist movement which takes its name from Chrisfus Rex. The Rexist newsorgan, Rex, had just boldly admitted that M. Degrelle had visited Berlin a few weeks before. Doubtless emboldened by Nazi bigwigs, he openly threatened last week to bring 250,000 Rexists on chartered trains to Brussels and "sweep out the van Zeeland Government!" This Rexist rashness caused Belgium's Premier to forbid the railways...
...weary of campaign pomposities and profundities is laughter. Than laughter, few political weapons are more damaging. Manhattan's smartchart, The New Yorker, demonstrated that sound fact this year when, just for fun, it printed two political cartoons. They proved among the most effective of the campaign. One, by slim, modest William G. Crawford, who signs himself Galbraith, gave a new twist to the young mistress-old lover theme. The other, by famed Peter Arno, capitalized the currently popular pastime of attending newsreel theatres for the pleasure of cheering one's Presidential favorite, hissing his opponent...
...composed of graduate men who wished to continue living in the House they had occupied last year. Although there are .53 of these listed as wanting House rooms, it is thought that there are many more who would have liked to get in but failed to apply, realizing the slim chances of being accepted...