Word: squatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Commons the chapel-like benches were so crowded that lanky Sir John Simon was forced to squat on the steps of the Speaker's dais. Rotund Tory Winston Churchill, fresh from his startling accusations against Lord Derby and Sir Samuel Hoare (see p. 16), was too late to find a seat on the Government side, and he was forced to cross the floor and perch on a few inches of cushion next to wild-eyed Laborite James Maxton whose hair is longer than Greta Garbo...
...squat Otto Langhanke was a window decorator in Quincy, Ill. Later he became a high-school German teacher and after that a chicken farmer. In 1917, he and his Portuguese wife moved to Chicago where their pretty 14-year-old daughter Lucille could take dancing and acting lessons to prepare for a career which might some day make them all comfortably rich...
...small Lucille Langhanke had ceased to exist. She had become Cinemactress Mary Astor. By 1925 she was leading lady for Douglas Fairbanks. Squat Otto Langhanke had long since retired from school-teaching and chicken-raising. He was a well-to-do Hollywood gentleman, accustomed to dressing in a cutaway. With his wife he lived in a $200,000 house equipped with a $15,000 swimming pool. Last week occurred a crucial development in the history of the Langhanke family. In Los Angeles, Otto Langhanke had given up his cutaway and was wearing what passed for rags when he asked...
Judge Callahan's announced intention was to "debunk" the Scottsboro case. At the first two trials there had been noise and bustle, the clicking of typewriters, he glare of camera flashlights. Last week Judge Callahan excluded all photographers. All was quiet as a squat, hard-faced blonde in a blue chiffon dress and a peaked black hat climbed to the witness stand, chewing snuff. Victoria Price, twice-married mill-hand, onetime vagrant, told in less than ten minutes and in language so foul that newshawks could not print it, the story of her alleged rape. Then she pointed...
...arms, while planning for the acquisition of eight children. Elizabeth Allan is the feminine interest, or at least is intended to be, for again we have only the preview's word for it that there is any interest whatsoever in the picture. Miss Allan's face is squat, her acting a nonentity, but her figure is lissome. It is a shame that we have to see so much more of the face than the rest, but it is a relief to realize that very little of the "fiminine interest" is seen...