Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railway junction, 40 miles south of Cambrai, Henry found a place in an auto mobile bound for Paris. Thin, tall Scots man Philip waited for a train, caught one four hours later. A few miles down the line the train halted while customs officers examined his credentials. Cried one, noting Timesman Philip's strange uniform, his blue eyes and sandy hair: "You're a dirty German parachutist!" A crowd collected, screaming imprecations. Ordered to undress, Percy Philip stripped to his under wear while soldiers inspected the soles of his boots, felt the lining of his tunic. Then...
When Kipling was singing the glories of Empire in India, Neville Chamberlain was painstakingly trying to raise sisal on the thin soil of Andros Island in the Bahamas, to recoup his family's fortunes. When his father, Old Joe Chamberlain, as Colonial Secretary, was working to bring the Boers to terms, Neville was learning the hardware business in Birmingham and interesting himself in health work. The age of Victoria molded him into a typical Englishman of his time-not a Kipling Englishman, but a Galsworthy Soames Forsyte. Neville Chamberlain's mind was once described as "the type which...
...striding up and down in front of the fireplace, glowing pipe in hand. His somewhat forlorn frame was suitably encased in baggy tweeds. There was a brandy-snifter on the mantel-piece with a thin film of amber curving along the bottom. Vag decided that he cut a pretty smooth figure in front of the fire, especially when the tiny yellow flames spurted and gave his fact a ruddy gleam easily mistaken, he thought, for the flush of ambition of a young man about to graduate from Harvard. "But what do you want to be." came the quiet voice from...
...every critical point the artistic acumen of a flashy sophomore. Novelist Bromfield is famed for his "characters"; Night in Bombay'?, are so weakly conceived that they not only lack inner consistency but sometimes waver in their physique (e.g., sinister Mr. Botlivala's hands are "very long and thin and very collapsible" on page 74, "plump little hands" on page...
...Solemn-looking, thin and hollow-eyed, one of the richest men in the U. S. admitted in a Chicago Federal court last week that he was guilty of a crime. His crime: evasion of Federal income-tax payment in 1936. The criminal: Moses L. Annenberg (publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily Racing Form, etc., etc.). Maximum penalty: five years in jail, $10,000 fine. Without admitting Government charges (soon to be dismissed) that he or some of his companies had also evaded income taxes in 1931, '32, '33, '34, '35 and '37, Publisher Annenberg agreed...