Word: slung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helped draw the Government reorganization bills, saw them knifed by the Democratic majority, went to work for that majority when the New Deal came to town, as Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s administrative assistant. Impatient of tenseness, intolerant of hurry, he presides at NDAC meetings with a leg slung over the arm of his chair, his eyes half closed. But he makes Commission members' eyes pop when someone says of a pending job: "It'll take ten days." McReynolds likes to, and often does rouse himself long enough to say something like: "I'll have it done...
...through the eyes of a German or a Jew, but of the screen's most Typical American Girl, smart, slapdash, big-eyed Joan Bennett. When Miss Bennett, for all the world like the heroine of a Gary Grant comedy, slithers up a Berlin street in a low-slung roadster and comes upon a gang of Storm Troopers beating a few old Czechs, the smash is terrific...
...post-war vaudeville, low-slung Jim and Marion Jordan (he 5 ft. 6, she 5 ft. 4), a married musical pair, never got near the Palace. They never got far in radio until they met a fat, frustrated but merry cartoonist named Don Quinn, who gagged better than he drew. Quinn devised a skit called Smack Out, in which Jim ran a grocery that was always smack out of everything but the proprietor's tall stories...
...less unorthodox is Phoneman Moore's midsummer method of taking a swim before breakfast. Stepping onto a balcony outside his second-floor bedroom window, he presses a button. From a swimming pool in the yard a model airplane climbs to him on cables. Sitting on a trapeze slung from the undercarriage, he presses another button, the plane heads for the pool. Mr. Moore lets go in time to flop into the water. On the journey back he just hangs on until the plane deposits him on the balcony again...
...plans are flexible; his constant desire to accentuate the natural quality of the material at his disposal gives rise to an unstultified and graceful structure. In his plans for homes, Wright's continued emphasis on the horizontal and rather low-slung design for prairie dwellings is an example of his successful attempt to make architecture conform to the contours of the surrounding countryside. His expert handling of the floating cantilever principle in constructing the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo enabled that building to withstand the great earthquake of 1923. In short, the man has succeeded in combining grace and utility, those...