Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main stairway, so that nearly everyone looked at it once when they came in and a second time when they went out. The first scrutiny was the more satisfactory. Artist Poole had put the actress against a dark background, wrapped her in a black cape, painted her hands brown, thin and nervous. Her face looked out from all this gloom with the terror of a child's half-dream in the dark. Nonetheless, the characterization was too taut and theatrical...
Throughout the trial Count Bethlen could curl his thin lips over a telegraphic appeal for mercy despatched to him from Berlin by several authors of world fame who have followed with approval the literary flowering of luckless Baron Havatny. Signers of the telegram included Gerhart Hauptmann (dean of German dramatists), Arthur Schnitzler (smartest of Austrian dramatists) and Sinclair Lewis (now residing in Berlin). They appealed to Count Bethlen: "We turn to you in order to say a word for our personal friend and highly treasured colleague, Baron Havatny. We hope your wisdom will save a man such as Baron Havatny...
...Senator Borah can scrutinize at least four of his colleagues whose hearts beat faster when any one mentions the White House. Down front is Ohio's ponderously handsome Willis. Across the aisle are ruddy Robinson of Arkansas and Missouri's smoldering Reed. Right next to Senator Borah is the thin-lipped Utopian from Nebraska, Senator Norris, whose devotion to Logic is only one or two brain-cell-power less than Senator Borah's. All these candidates were to receive the Borah questionnaire, and perhaps Vice President Dawes as well...
...explain away the activities of their clients on the grounds that they had merely been seeking "research material" for a pacifist German scholar who wanted to write a book exposing British militarism. When the "scholar" could not be produced or even proved to have existed, the defence became palpably thin, evanescent...
...June 21, governed by Mercury. "Most Gemini natives try to walk in two directions at once." They work on all manner of subjects, good or bad, and think they are producing logical and accurate results. High-powered U. S. businessmen are often Gemini. So are gold-digging women. Childishness, thin lips, lung trouble are Gemini characteristics. Under this sign were born Douglas Fairbanks, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Harry Emerson Fosdick, the late Queen Victoria, Walt Whitman, Patrick Henry, Alighieri Dante...