Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the expedition which rich, eccentric Templeton Crocker of San Francisco is conducting in the South Sea islands aboard his big yacht Zaca. The news: Gygis alba, a white, gull-like bird, builds no nest for her solitary, mottled egg but plops it neatly into the fork of a slim tree-branch. She covers the egg with her breast but leaves it occasionally to find food. The young Gygis may, during mother's absence, break out of the shell to find itself alone, teetering on a precarious twig...
Escape Me Never! That her first U. S. audience could not go quite so far as to drape over Elizabeth Bergner's slim shoulders the accumulated mantles of Terry, Duse & Bernhardt was no reflection on her very considerable talents. It does not take much of a play to provide a proper vehicle for an authentic diva. The less dramaturgy there is to distract attention from the star, many a leading lady feels, the better. But Playwright Kennedy's tale about the musical Sangers, a faintly connected sequel to her Constant Nymph, is practically no play at all. Every...
...Planar-wheel suspension" for greater riding ease, compound hydraulic brakes and steel bodies "reinforced by steel" (to go the others one better) for safety, and "skyway silhouette" with "slim, silvery radiators, intriguing new hood louvers, and gull's wing fenders" for improved body lines-these are the contributions Studebaker has made this year to their models and to the advertising jargon...
...State Department was reported "displeased" by Admiral Reeves's impetuosity. Aboard his flagship last week, Japan's slim Naval Commander-in-Chief Admiral Sankiti Takahashi remained mouse...
...candelabra flickered through the gloom of Boston's Union Congregational Church-the church in down-at-heel South End to which Rev. Dwight Jacques Bradley went after relinquishing a swank one in Newton, Mass. (TIME, Sept. 24). A mixed congregation of 600 gazed in interested bewilderment at a slim, bare-foot girl in the chancel. She wore nothing but a long flowing gown. Her name was Eleanor Schirmer and she was a Newton socialite whose father was a Boston banker...