Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Magazine for November reported the discovery, through geography and statistics, of "the average American citizen." The man was one Roy Lewis Gray, clothing merchant, of Fort Madison, Iowa, native born, aged 43, not tall, not short, not fat, not thin, not bald, not dark, not light, not Wet, not a Dry, with a wife, son, daughter, pipe, radio, three-year-old automobile. Average Mr. Gray visited Chicago last week. There he bought a picture postcard of his hotel, marked his window with a "X," mailed the card home. He wanted to see the Chicago park system, stock yards, municipal...
Each of the company makes his cartoon figure not only comic but human, and helps carry through a farce which is only fairly good into a very pleasant evening. When the spinster motif is over-worked or the thin ice cracks it is plainly not the actor's but the author's fault. The audience was sprinkled with portions of the British Navy, who remarked truly and in accents worthy of Roland Young that it was a jolly good show; and if it is not so good as "The Ghost Train" it may run even longer. The unmarried ladies...
Then lendors with undignified violence died, and thin lips folded over expectation confirmed. Days later newspapers, were rushed up gangplanks and the comments of the European press began to appear. There was a tendency in all of them, including the Scandinavian and especially the English, to make a martyr of the woman. Something was said concerning the blow to the freedom of apt in her death, a fancy particularly shocking to a locality only beginning to sleep off an overdose of Anglomania...
...little mountains on the moors beyond the window. Famous and courtly figures, so long kenneled in their small dark house, peered over the shoulder of the reader; he saw them but his eyes continued their hesitating journey from left to right over the pages that were like a thin maze. A fashionable lady bowed at his elbow; Voltaire took snuff and made a face behind him. At last James Boswell Talbot gathered his ancestor's writings and put them back into the ebony...
...Ernst Lubitsch, whom most people recognize as the foremost master of cinema comedy and point to as a particularly baffling example of how a man can be light and Teutonic at the same time. It is the atmosphere of old Heidelberg that interests him mainly. The story is spread thin-being nothing more unusual than the one about the princeling who went to college and fell in love with the barmaid. But the beer-quaffing, the jolly good-fellowship and the intrusion at odd moments of the ridiculous pomposities that beset princes of every romance, are the details that Director...