Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average American, the average Englishman seems affected, patronizing, humorless, impolite, and funny. To him also the Englishman wears spats and carries an eyeglass; to him also he is slim and neatly dressed; yet the American, unlike the German, is not impressed by these elegancies; he considers them ridiculous; and thus, although he is frequently assured by his own politicians that the Englishman is, in fact, a cold-blooded imperialist who spends his time in jumping on the underdog, he does not take these accusations very seriously. . . . To him we appear as slightly comic figures. I am aware that, psychologically speaking...
Those who came to see records smashed were disappointed. Yale's slim Keith Spalding Brown, who holds the world's indoor pole-vaulting record, was outsoared by Southern California's William Graber in a vault-off. Sam Allen of Oklahoma Baptist came nearest to setting a world mark. Over the 120-yd. high hurdles two reserve and one regular timer caught him at 14.1 sec., a tenth of a second better than the record. Unfortunately for Allen, the other two regular timers averaged...
...eights Sir Sam may impart to Empire foreign policy Whitehall preferred not to guess. At the India Office he was noted for bullheadedness, for closing his eyes to new facts once his decisions were made, and for slogging through. Last week Sir Sam slogged his India Bill helper, the slim, grey-mustached Marquess of Zetland, into the Secretaryship of State for India he himself had just vacated. Lord Zetland wears 1910 collars, teems with anecdotes commencing "Now when I was Governor of Bengal . . .", and has a mannerism which Englishmen describe as "perpetually washing his hands with invisible soap...
They will also see slim Dean John Howell Janeway Upham of Ohio State University, functioning as chairman of the board of trustees of the American Medical Association, suspend a gold medal by a green ribbon from the neck of portly Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring, 67, of Des Moines, retiring president...
...last week, also with strips of runners and jumpers at last fortnight's Western Conference Track Meet at Ann Arbor, Mich. A wry caption explained: "These remarkable pictures . . .were taken with the slow motion picture camera (magic eye, my aunt) of the Detroit Free Press." Cameraman Joseph Kalec, slim, dark, saturnine, a onetime Army flyer, made no secret of the fact that he used an ordinary De Vry 35 mm. cinema camera. But he had been obliged to tinker the shutter speed to get "stills" that could be enlarged without blurring...