Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris thrifty Miss Warner returned with her sister-manager to await the verdict in their room at the cheap Hotel Burgundy where they never smoke, never order wine. Thin and, without makeup, childish in appearance, the 22-year-old Slave Dancer shrewdly concocts from cosmetics bought in bulk the thick paint which turns her into a beautiful, large-eyed blonde of uncertain age. Strangely lacking in sex appeal off the stage, Miss Warner is a wet blanket at parties, has been known plaintively to ask fellow guests who were making whoopee to sit down and let her read them...
Down a corridor in the Senate Office Building one day last week strode a squat, husky, red-headed Washington newshawk named Robert S. Allen. Outside the big Senate caucus room he spotted a thin, greyish ex-Washington newshawk named Paul C. Yates...
...average Frenchman the mental picture of the Englishman is generally subordinate to his mental picture of the Englishwoman. The latter is not a flattering portrait. It is the picture of a thin, rather weather-beaten, extremely ill-dressed old maid, clad in sensible check garments, and threatening taxi-drivers with a green umbrella. The French portrait of the Englishman is superimposed upon this unwelcome image. It is the picture of an inelegant, stupid, arrogant, and inarticulate person with an extremely red face. The French seem to mind our national complexion more than other nations. It gets on their nerves. They...
...into very thin slices 1 onion, 1 small carrot, 1 stick of celery. Melt 1 oz. butter in a stewpan and fry with vegetables for a few minutes without browning. Add 2½ lb. tomatoes, cut into slices, and cook for a few more minutes. Add 2 pints of water, small clove of garlic and bunch of herbs...
...wearily to Philadelphia on a bicycle, arriving three days late. Most delegates from out-of-town arrived by automobile, were put up by local Christian Endeavorers. They arose at 7 a. m., gathered in Convention Hall for an early "Quiet Hour" of Scriptural reading. Eager and uncritical, they absorbed thin-spread ideas from speakers on marriage, peace, evangelism, social justice, politics. They yielded to the energetic, well-scrubbed personality of Christian Endeavor's world president, Dr. Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling. They marched in a great parade to show how they felt about peace. And they sang lustily, often under...