Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politely in the Vice-Presidency, made things hard for the President and helped cause the present fissure in his Party. There are four aspects of Charles Gates Dawes: 1) The striking individual who smokes a freak pipe, wears cut throat collars and memorable neckties, talks rapidly in a high, thin voice, composes music and plays it on piano or flute...
People liked Postum cereal's morning brew, and their purchases gave Post enough money to continue pottering around the oven. Whole wheat and barley came out of the oven Grape Nuts. Later came thin, crisp Post Toasties, then Instant Postum powder. These four products were the foundation blocks of the great Postum business...
...fourth round where she played a tired little woman by the name of Wragg who came out on the first tee wearing hornrimmed spectacles, a leather jacket with a sweater under it, woolen stockings, thick shoes, and woolen gloves. Miss Collett, always natty, had on a thin blue raincoat. Warm and ugly, Miss Wragg kept her ball in the middle of the course. Miss Collett stopped before each shot to warm her fingers with her breath. "How do you feel?" asked a friend. "Rotten" answered Miss Collett. Miss Wragg...
...ladies of her acquaintance into her hotel bedroom and proceeded to show them. She rolled about on the floor, flinging her long legs in the air. She turned many somersaults, laughing heartily. "There," she said at last, panting and flushed, "that is what I do. That keeps me thin and agile...
...Every day in every way I'm getting thinner and thinner"--as M. Coue's slogan might have been--applies the same principle as does the actress in her home-made "grow thin" method. She merely decides to lose weight--and she does. Eat everything you like, though not too much of it, to be sure, indulge in mild exercise, and think: that is the whole formula...