Word: slimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black seems to do his job with no more effort than it takes to sign a check. A tall (6 ft. 2 in.), setter-slim (160 Ibs.), amiable Southerner, whose high-domed head is as bare of top hair as the globe itself, he floats effortlessly through the stratosphere of world finance. He is an elegant dresser (Homburg from London's James Lock & Co., suits from Savile Row's Henry Poole), an amusing storyteller, a man of omnivorous tastes, who sums up his chief delights (besides Shakespeare) as "the four Bs-banking, baseball, Balzac and bourbon...
...Premier Antonio Segni's government, it was a welcome verdict of approval, and Christian Democratic strategists calculated happily that if national elections were held now, the government would considerably bolster its slim, 16-vote majority in the Chamber of Deputies...
POSTAL-RATE INCREASE will probably be put off for at least another year. Though House Post Office committee has approved a $432 million rate hike (to 4? first class, 7? air mail), chances are slim that Congress, with many members facing reelection, will pass the Administration-backed measure...
...raised in the Paris streets like countless gamins, working as a seamstress, waitress, vegetable seller, and drawing for pleasure on the sidewalks with pieces of coal. Tradition has it that she first caught the eye of Painter Puvis de Chavannes when she delivered his laundry. Struck by her slim figure and natural grace, he made her the model for all the figures (both male and female) in his most celebrated painting, The Sacred Wood. Other assignments soon followed. Auguste Renoir used her as the model for his contrasting pictures, Country Dance and City Dance. Toulouse-Lautrec's drawing...
...Once upon a time I was young, frivolous, carefree, and relatively slim. That was way back in 1953 A.D. I had the longest reddest nails of anyone who worked at Bergdorf Goodman and I used to stand elegantly in Bergdorf's marble rotunda . . . looking just as soignée as all get out . . . Every Friday they paid me fifty lovely dollars, less withholding, less social security, less retirement benefits, less hospitalization, and I could do just about anything I liked with the change. My husband, Bill . . . worked a little farther down Fifth [and] except for an occasional ink stain...