Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skimmed. In Jamestown, N.Y., a half-full milk bottle skidded off a window sill, plummeted six stories, crashed through a thin wooden panel, landed bolt upright, unbroken...
Last week Sheeler's first exhibition in five years opened in a Manhattan gallery. Sheeler, a knife-thin, steel-grey, bespectacled craftsman, works slowly to achieve his carefully balanced arrangements of reality, so it was not a big show-but each picture had a prim perfection. Most visitors acknowledged Sheeler's peculiar mastery, but were left a little cold...
...that Craig Rice ever bored anybody. When we were both practically flunking a "journalism" course at San Diego State College, I can guarantee it was not because she was dull. In fact, I view with alarm your report that at the age of 18 (see cut) she was a "thin, dried-up little girl who was very plain." Not so. She was a very satisfactory armful. . . . JAMES CRENSHAW Herald and Express Los Angeles
Barbara Hutton, whose first was Prince Alexis Mdivani, whose second was Danish Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow and whose third was Gary Grant, swore rather faintly that she was swearing off. The wheat-blond, Ry-Krisp-thin dime-store heiress told the Hearst press: "I'm not going to get married again as long as I live. I hope...
Rowlandson's raffish lampoons showed a corrupt but essentially comic world in which everyone was either too fat or too thin. Plump, pug-faced William Hogarth was perhaps harder to take. With less wit, he had gone deeper into the cynical, sensual, swaggering spirit of his time, and used his engraving tools, like a moral surgeon, to lay bare the malignant tumors of cruelty, ignorance and greed...