Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brave, gay, wreaths are in the windows. Trailing ropes of greenery hang in department stores. Thin and bandy-legged men stand on street corners in red suits ringing cow bells. On envelopes are little green stamps emblazoned with the cross of the crusades. An old woman in the South End stares out a dirty window into a dirty street at a delivery truck painted red and green. Young girls in Beacon Hill loop up to a candle smiling winsomely through lace curtains. Mail men stoop beneath vast leather bags full of hopeful verse in bad metre and worn out welcomes...
...necessity took the Vagabond away from his book and drove him up to Widener. The heroic figure of Garibaldi soon evaporated in the thin, rational air of Cambridge and left only an uneasy sense of contact with something which was impossible. The grip on life which the great patriot had held was dissipated in a thousand petty realities. Sadly the wandering scholar sought an open gate into the Yard and passed into Widener's murky shadow. Like a prison, its sides honeycombed with the ghostly glow of half-lit cells, it dominated the night. Up the broad marble steps...
...Chicago's Professor of Egyptology and Oriental History, had written several books, ranging from an academic New Chapter in the Life of Thutmose III to the lively Ancient Times and a History of Egypt, which was translated into many languages, including Braille. His hair was growing a little thin above his forehead, but he was ambitious and enthusiastic as ever. He got the University to stake him to another trip to Egypt-this time at the head of a small party. They went 1,000 miles up the Nile through the dangerous rapids of the Fourth Cataract, stayed...
...across the down trails from Cerro Alto and Santa Rita mesas, where the nutters were camped. Within a few days the Indians' small supplies were exhausted. Hungry ponies hunched head-to-head in the icy blast. Families crouched over small fires or cowered in the protection of their thin canvas wagon tops. It was decided that as many as possible should take the weakened ponies down to the Zuni settlement near Gallup, there strengthen them and bring them back. Three hundred braves trudged into the Zuni pueblos last week, dropped exhausted on the warm earthen floors. As soon...
Matthew Talbot, born in 1856, was a thin, small man with a high forehead and big eyes. As a youth he was a harum-scarum, liked to drink whiskey and would sell his shoes for a drop of it. Then one day he agreed to take the pledge-for three months. It lasted for the rest of his life. Employed in a lumberyard, he became known as a quiet, pious man. What his fellows did not know was that he slept nights on a plank covered with a single sheet, a block of wood for his pillow...