Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. In famed Manchester ("Doomington") Grammar School, Louis Golding was precocious among prodigies. At Queen's College, Oxford, he was an ostentatious aesthete, a mincing pedestrian with yellow hair all abroad and much thin-piping, decadent erudition. His poems and essays of the period (1919-22) run salt and shallow. Then he settled in the Tyrol, wandering north into Germany, south to Capri and Sicily. Seacoast of Bohemia (1924) gave evidence of a poseur shedding his false skins. Now, at 29, he seems to have written out of his bones...
Kiss Me Again. Ernst Lubitsch is our other great director, imported but no less great. Griffith is the master of mass and melodrama, loud laughter and tumbling tears. Lubitsch is the genius of the nimbler gaieties-the subtle graces of light comedy. He has taken a thin old story of the businessman, the bored wife and the Plutonic musician and made it grow and ripple with amusement. He has even made Monte Blue seemingly a good actor...
...Unafraid that they would generalize their subject into thin air, they deployed last week in polyglot platoons to discuss international teaching of History ("banish war heroics"), Civics and Geography; establishment of standard courses, in the normal schools of all countries, on Internationalism; establishment of a world university and a universal library service; agreement upon a reciprocal arrangement concerning university degrees and credits, whereby students could migrate from one university to those of other countries without interrupting their studies...
...whether used for fuel or as a lubricant, when spread upon the sea, quickly forms a very light layer on the surface, tends to increase surface tension of the. water and hence has a tendency to prevent the breaking of waves. I have often seen gulls alight in this thin layer of oil in harbors, but I have never seen one unable to take off as a result...
Having thus accomplished what they had come so far to try, the U. S. team took the field in an exhibition game against four thin players from Jedhpur, India. Before the game, these Indians made a great show. Fifty brown grooms in prismatic turbans, 50 ponies around the field while the band played. Watching Americans grinned, thought of the parades of the Veiled Prophets (see Page 25) which they had often witnessed in the U. S. That sort of thing was admirable for Elks, Moose, Kiwanis, Realtors and the like, but, after all, it was not polo. The game began...