Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stews were thin, the rain cold, the sun hot and politics rampant in the camps of the Bonus Expeditionary Force at Washington last week. Time hung heavy on idle hands made restless by malnutrition. Four radical veterans were caught selling Communist propaganda, turned over to police. Two more were hustled out of the city by B. E. F. "military police" who manhandled their charges on the way. General Pelham Glassford, superintendent of the District of Columbia's police, having guaranteed equal rights for all, urged the assaulted Communists to bring charges against their assailants...
Long (6 ft., 1¾ in.), thin (156 lb.), blond, with horned-rim glasses, Ben Eastman lacks the appearance of a champion runner. He looked even less like one the day he won the quarter-mile in a class track meet when he was a Stanford freshman. He ran in sneakers. But his time was 51 sec. Stanford's seasoned track coach, Robert Lyman ("Dink") Templeton, was so much impressed that he took Eastman in hand, had him go away for the summer to put on weight. Last year, running in the intercollegiates for the first time, Eastman lost...
...haired Maurice McLoughlin was obviously a "comet." Sad, sly little Henri Cochet, with rings under his eyes, is a "wizard." Tilden, tall, thin, dramatic, made an almost funnypaper contrast with William Johnston, short, thin, efficient: they were "Big Bill" and "Little Bill." Last week the galleries at Wimbledon, after watching some tennis as great as Wimbledon ever saw, felt around for a nickname for its exponent, a lanky, lazy-looking California boy who had come over to play in his first "world championship...
...during Cleveland's opera last summer. Last week's audience admired her dusky acting, applauded lustily when Impresario Maurice Frank thanked her for coming from Hollywood to sing at this benefit (Girls' Service League, Boys' Club of New York). They found her voice sweet but thin, lost in the vast Polo Grounds. More at home were Mezzo-Soprano Carmela Ponselle (sister of Rosa) and Baritone Giuseppe Martino-Rossi. Soprano Gahagan announced she would return to California at once, sing in Jerome Kern's mellifluous The Cat & the Fiddle...
...from her family's flat. R. was so superior to anybody she had ever seen before, the women he brought home with him were so angelically bright, that the girl began to worship him. His doormat became sacred ground, his doorknob the shining star of love. Through thick & thin she pursued that star until, grown up, she at last waylaid him on the street, turned the blissful doorknob to her own account. Three nights they dallied, then R. went out of town. Slowly, reading the letter, he begins to realize that he was the father of her child. Lest...