Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond sat apart balancing the thin glass on the palm of his hand watching the streamers of smoke weave their changing patterns about the heads of his friends. He had loosed his collar and the green striped tie was bound about his head giving him an air of Attic dignity enhanced by the sweet serenity of countenance that he so often achieved of an evening. He lifted his glass to his right eye and held it there as if it were a telescope, gazing through its opaque bottom with great earnestness, the slow smile of the contented seer disturbing...
...crawled into a chicken yard in Hood River, Ore. one day last week. But a big Rhode Island Red rooster was soon angrily aware of the intrusion on his flock. Like daggers his big spurs flashed across the baby's head. A physician found the child's thin skull was fractured. Pneumonia set in and two days later Baby Krieg was dead. Hood River's Police Chief William Hart, the child's grandfather, ordered her murderer's execution...
Governor Black is very tall, very thin, with a very big nose, big ears, big mouth and very merry eye. He looks something like Andy Gump, does not mind being told so. More important, he is full of what is known as gumption. It was gumption rather than high finance that qualified him in the President's eyes for his Washington...
...that unhappy industry. Wholesale trade was reported above normal. From London came reports that the travel business of Thos. Cook & Son-Wagons-Lits Co. was 10% above last year. For the time being, observers last week agreed there was little doubt that U. S. Business could hold the thin black line of last year's level...
...there may have been the germ of a potent picture but if so it was sterilized by second-rate dialog and second-hand situations. What is left are a few authentic and interesting episodes-like the contest in wagon-loading by Hoffman's drivers-strung together on the thin thread of a skillful performance by Hersholt...