Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early Thin Man pictures suffered from Mr. Hammett's obvious failure to learn what English A students accept as gospel, but they were made enjoyable and often very amusing by some clever dialogue and by a pair of Hollywood's best wise-crackers. In the latest of the series, "The Shadow of the Thin Man," the former redeeming feature has been scrubbed away to the bone, and nothing is left but Mr. Hammett's amazingly naked dramatic structure. William Powell, as detective Nick Charles, still finds great sport in solving murders while sipping highballs' surprisingly enough, no criminal...
...from bed. He showed himself in his sleek car, behind a motorcycle escort, only when alarmists shouted that he was dying. In his Malacanan Palace, changing from one bright-colored dressing gown to another, the 63-year-old President played bridge, ran off movies for his friends, with his thin fingers deftly manipulated the wires that control Philippine politics...
Bloomington's gouache show was the idea of Illinois Wesleyan University's thin, goggle-eyed, 30-year-old Instructor Vincent Paul Quinn, who thought his students and art-loving Bloomingtonians ought to know about one of the most popular paint mediums...
...Before his departure from enemy territory the spy was to acquire a dog. . . . The spy was provided with very thin paper and a small aluminum tube. The paper he covered with sketches and statistics; he rolled it up and slipped it into the tube, and the tube was inserted in the dog's rectum. . . . The trick was detected only through a grotesque accident...
...Government commissioned a spokesman, Colonial Secretary Lord Moyne, to speak plain truth to the British people. But Lord Moyne could tell Britain none of the many facts that Britons ached to hear: what was being sent to Russia, how great a striking force Britain had to throw against the thin 40 German divisions in the West, how much shipping would be needed for an invasion and how much was available...