Word: squat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make meticulous reports to the German Embassy in Washington, moved through the six rooms foot by foot. Books and letters were everywhere-most in German, many on nudism. There were scores of photographs of naked men, many middleaged. Neighbors had noted that no women went to see black-haired, squat Dr. Engelberg; that his servants were men, his numerous visitors were...
Year before World War I got going, tall, dignified Albert V. Moore, socialite, and squat, jib-nosed Emmet J. McCormack, ex-tugboat captain, tossed $5,000 into the pot and founded the shipping firm of Moore & McCormack (now Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.). Two years later the shoestring firm bought its first ship for $90,000 (cash: $15,000), christened it the Moormack, put $185,000 worth of repairs into its hull and went after business. From that time on the history of Moore-McCormack is the history of most of today's U. S. merchant marine...
They crowded to the rails, rubbernecking eagerly as the towers of the City Hall came into view, and then the long, squat shipbuilding yards and factories of Tallinn. Like Cook's Tour lecturers, Communist political commissars on the Soviet warships pointed out the sights, reminded Red Navy tars that in Tallinn once lived that popular Old Bolshevik gaffer Mikhail Kalinin who today is frontman for secretive Joseph Stalin in the role of Soviet President. "Look there, comrades!" cried the political commissar, "Over there you can see where Mikhail Ivanovich once worked as a mechanic...
...flat plain 48 miles south of Chicago lie 60 squat red-brick buildings. They house the 5,500 insane patients and 760 employes of Manteno State Hospital. Finished in 1937, this dreary-neat plant boasts many a modern improvement, including special wells, tapping a limestone water-table 17 feet underground, which supply the hospital with water. Life at Manteno rolled along with the quiet, machinelike monotony common to State institutions until one day last August, when a half-dozen patients complained of diarrhea...
Novelist Heyward's principal case history is that of broad-shouldered, deep-bosomed Rhoda Berg, whom squat, bandy-legged Adam Work had deserted five years before. When Adam came back after the crash, she refused to sleep with him, pined for the days when "dere was always something it was time to do ... to tie de canes, to hoist de bundle to yo' head an' feel de good weight press down on you till yo' feet bog in de wet places." Like the rest, however, Rhoda accepted relief, enjoyed its trimmings. Some of them: a local...