Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What slim, ascetic Dr. Sigmund Freud is to Psychoanalysis, bald, beefy Major Clifford Hugh Douglas is to Social Credit. The Major, a Scottish engineer, a graduate of Cambridge and a cousin of Lord Weir, once worked for Westinghouse in India, now has his swank abode in London and contrives to rent his ideas for fat fees. In 1934 the Alberta Government which was thrown out last week paid him $30,000 to go to Calgary and expound views which they proceeded to ignore but which fired High School Principal William Aberhart and his Prophetic Bible Institute, spurred them...
Every day a slim, grey agent of the Recording Angel scans all the newspapers which reach his Philadelphia office, meticulously snips out every item about every suicide. Between times Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, University of Pennsylvania statistician, writes to health officials and registrars of principal U. S. cities, requesting every iota of news about suicides. In this fashion he accumulates one of the most reliable records on earth concerning that army of unhappy souls who would dissipate their troubles in death...
...very rich nor very poor, work harder than their Negro help and run to rugged individualism. In that section is the drowsy market town of Dothan (pop.: 16,000) and the combustible newspaper family of Hall which won the Dothan Eagle three generations ago in a draw poker game. Slim, red-headed Editor Julian Hall, 33, is a first-rate newspaperman, an Alabama "character," a humorist of distinction. Under the Dothan Eagle's heading, Editor Hall daily prints the Biblical quotation: For I Heard Them Say, "Let Us Go To Dothan."- Genesis 37: 17, referring to the village...
...AUTHORS ONLY?Kenneth Roberts ?Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Bright, superficial essays on the slim rewards of authors, the easy bewilderment of the English, as reflected in their mystery stories, the worst sides of English education, golf, dogs and diet...
...slim, birdlike little woman with dark bobbed hair, she is reticent, independent, has few close friends. She has logged some 1,500 hr., never crashed, believes firmly in astrology...