Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yours very truly, (signed) J. v. RIBBENTROP - In Germany, 1939's wine, which is thin and sour, is contemptuously referred to as Ribbentropfen...
...Editor, I've eaten in three continents and in 20 different countries and I think I know something about eating. My wife and I were both born in Yorkshire and when you make a crack like that you are treading on very thin...
...oldest Representative there was a thin, bald, snap-eyed man from Glenwood Springs, Colo.-Ed. T. Taylor, 81, who has run for office at 21 general elections, not only without defeat but without any opposition, and who is the author of more State laws, Constitutional amendments and Federal laws combined than anyone else...
Umpteenth in a series of screwball comedies, "The Amazing Mr. Williams" provides an amusing respite from Widener. Joan Blondell and Melvyn Douglas both turn out humorous performances in Columbia's imitation of the "Thin Man" series. Super-sleuth Douglas in the course of the picture apprehends a bank robber, decoys a skull-crusher, and takes a "desperate criminal,"--middle-aged and bald--on a double date to the beach with Miss Blondell. One of the more slap-stick incidents occurs when the amazing Mr. Williams attempts to disguise himself by donning women's clothes; it is a backneyed device...
...post-War U. S. A. appears nearer to Romains' in scope, but his great powers of narrative and evocation are spent on a host of minor characters, his structure weakened by journalistic sketches and personal asides, his style a brilliant feat of skating fast over thin...