Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flying speck vanished away from the aerodrome at Le Bourget, outside Paris. They saw it pass near Strasbourg. Austrians and Hungarians glanced aloft shortly after. Dour Serbs eyed its flight over their dark mountains. Quarrelsome Bulgars and the night-watchmen of Constantinople heard its thin droning and all night it sped on over Anatolia, Kurdistan, down the Euphrates Valley to meet the dawn. At Basra in Irak, where the Euphrates, led by the Tigris, floods down to the Persian Gulf and men are said to have flown on magic carpets, the speck finally came to earth. Captain Ludovic Arrachart...
...laid to piece; the statue grew like a head emerging from the casual, apparently unrelated strokes of an artist's crayon, until at last it stood complete and the wide marble eyes, the straight nose descending under the helmet's shadow, the curling beard still dusted with thin flakes of gilt, revealed the face...
...play about a street urchin who posed for a city statue. That was the point of the title. It seems more than probable that the Civic Virtue statue storm of the Hylan administration years ago in New York inspired the endeavor. With Irish street comedy and thin slices of plain folks philosophy it wandered along amiably enough. There were no eminent performers. The opening night a grey kitten strolled unexpectedly into the middle of one of the emotional crises...
...sunshine. He plays the part of a busted millionaire returning to his home town and buying everything in sight. Just as the inhabitants are about to solve his insolvency, he fastens on to a power franchise, wins the girl, and all of that. These things would be thin indeed were it not for Mr. Denny. As a matter of fact they are pretty good...
...strong?yes?but not so magnificently "horse-jawed . . . lean templed . . . highbrowed." You published an excellent but disrespectful description of Woodrow Wilson, all but the "longish ears," which you must have transplanted from a Bok photograph where they are indeed to be seen. President Wilson's ears were rounded and thin, often noticed them and was infuriated more than once by cartoons. . . . And one more point: you need not have been so sarcastic about Twice Thirty as to (Call it "one of Mr. Bok's autobiographies." He has written only...