Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Romantically slim and handsome in his youth, Henry Hobson Richardson grew into a great bearded barrel of a man (see cut p. 29), proud of his wife and six children, his combined home and office, his vast capacity for champagne and the bright yellow vests he wore with evening clothes. Though he built several churches he was by no means a religious man. In fact at dinner one evening his good friend Phillips Brooks, rector of Boston's Trinity, was abashed to learn that Architect Richardson had never read the Bible. Architect Richardson promised to do so. started...
...years ago, is the father of two Philadelphia sons, one a lawyer, the other a stockbroker. Since the hard-felt death of his wife two years ago he has kept apart from most social activities. A gourmet who would be a gourmand but for pride in his slim figure, he likes golf, fine wines, caviar...
...managers about dirty hands, dirty nails, dirty hair, dirty necks. She found it necessary to get right down to such questions as how often to take a bath (once a day, in summer twice) and how often to change underwear (frequently). Large women should beware of sweaters and even slim girls should wear brassieres with knits...
Leaving the White House four days before his 78th birthday, Virginia's Senator Carter Glass spied slim, boyish-looking Associated Pressman Francis Marion Stephenson reaching toward a snowpile. As quick of arm as of wit, Senator Glass picked a chunk of icy snow off the running board of his car, heaved it accurately at "Little Stevie," jumped in the car. Chortled he: "I landed a good...
Like many a diseuse, Sarah Osnath-Halevy gained telling effects with a .shrug of a shoulder, a lift of an eye. More marvelous, though, was what she could suggest with her long, slim hands alone. Each finger seemed to have a definite part, each pose its own particular beauty. That such hands should have washed dishes and scrubbed floors seemed almost incredible. But it is a fact that Sarah Osnath-Halevy was a domestic servant before she made her mark as an interpreter of songs. Her family, driven out by Arabs, left Yemen when she was 4. On the long...