Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, Correspondent Serrell Hillman got in touch with schoolmaster Herbert Winslow Smith, who had taught Robert at the Ethical Culture School in Manhattan. At 15, he said, it was immediately obvious that this thin, gangling boy was a genius and, in fact, "his mind is so tremendous that it makes you really uneasy...
...Made of thin Neoprene latex (synthetic rubber), the balloon was about 17 feet in diameter while on the ground. It was partially inflated with hydrogen, which expanded it into a sphere only when it reached 35,000 feet. Rising still higher, the balloon stretched itself to 75 feet in diameter before it finally burst...
...thin man may soon get a new lease on life from the Public Health School. Dr. Frederick J. Stare, professor of Nutrition, yesterday announced a way to make skinny people fat, but it's not quite perfected yet. In fact, right now it just works on rats...
...London success, few critics considered Tallulah very seriously as an actress. But her looks were really something. Cecil Beaton called her "... A wicked archangel with . . . carven features . . . Her eyelashes, like a spreading peacock's tail, weigh down the lids over her enormous snake-like eyes . . . She is cadaverously thin ... the most easily recognizable face I know and ... the most luscious . . . cheeks like huge acid pink peonies . . . eyelashes built out with hot liquid paint to look like burnt matches . . . Her sullen, discontented, rather evil rosebud of a mouth is painted the brightest scarlet . . . shiny as ... strawberry...
Miss Tatlock's Millions (Paramount) gives Writer-Producer Charles Brackett another chance to practice his favorite sport of skating on dangerously thin ice. Brackett and his fellow worker Billy Wilder are virtually the only Hollywood practitioners, since the penalty for breaking through the ice is almost certain professional death. Brackett and Wilder have already managed to make movies around such dynamite-loaded topics as divorce, alcoholism, adultery-plus-murder, illegitimacy, the black market in Germany...