Word: supplee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Count was "a tall supple figure, indefinite features, eyes which in Bismarck's opinion were enough to spoil the best breakfast, large soft hands, a Narcissus-like grace of bearing . . . brilliantly witty. . . . This remarkable, many-sided man ... is the seductive picture of an aristocratic Cagliostro, formed to bewitch...
In Paris, after several years in London, lives a thin-bearded, long, supple blade of a man, middle-ag-ing but of feverish vitality, whom "the foremost English novelist" (Ford Madox Ford) calls "the greatest living poet." This is not cant between members of a mutual adulation society. Many an...
Sympathy is due Mr. Tunney why should he be prevented from capitalizing his fame? Others have had no trouble in performing in front of footlights--and many were less adroit boxers than Gene. There is, of course, a law, but there are manifold ways, of avoiding it: wearing evening clothes...
A man like that, no longer supple of bone, was taking: long chances, flying with fractures. His hosts led him to a Long Island hospital. There Mr. Montee thanked them, and asked for pen, ink, paper. He would let doctors examine his breakage, yes, but first he must write to...
Harry Houdini, prestidigitator, handcuff king, foe of charlatan spiritists: "As I was about to perform my 'Chinese water-cell trick'* on the stage of the Capitol Theatre at Albany, N. Y., faulty stage tackle let the ponderous wood-and-iron stock fall upon my left foot, crushing it...