Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...different from President Hart and the other Caribbean-ruling Bostonians is United Fruit's de facto head, Sam Zemurray. He is thin, bony, angular, with black domineering eyes and a hawk nose. Tropical-sun-tanned, he might be a Spaniard. He speaks English with a slight accent except when he is cursing, speaks Spanish with no accent at all. He is quiet in public, precisely dressed, has never been interviewed and likes to be left alone. His name appears neither in Who's Who nor in the New Orleans Social Register. His daughter Doris two years ago married...
Behind locked doors on the 13th floor of Chicago's Garrick Building, members of the Cook County Women's Christian Temperance Union met excitedly one afternoon last week. Notably absent from the meeting was the group's president, dimpled, thin-haired Mrs. Beata Brucer, 45. Against her the Cook County W. C. T. U. was deliberating grave charges...
...Scotland, went to Canada in 1913. Three years later he settled in the U. S. For ten years he was a Congregational minister in Bridgeport, Conn. He was graduated from Yale (B. D. 1923), studied at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa). Four years ago he suffered a breakdown. Thin, highbrowed, grey-haired, he now looks older than he is. In March 1931 Mr. Beale took over the People's Church in St. Paul, whose pastor for many years had been Howard Y. Williams, now secretary of Professor John Dewey's League for Independent Political Action. People...
Saint Wench (by John Colton; Helen Menken, producer). Playwright John Colton is the man who wrote The Shanghai Gesture, co-dramatized a William Somerset Maugham story into Rain. Helen Menken of the thin face and beech-leaf hair accomplished emotional successes in Seventh Heaven, The Infinite Shoeblack, The Captive. It is to be recorded with reluctance that Mr. Colton's Saint Wench, acted in and managed by Miss Menken, is an unconscionable bore, a pitiably uninspired piece of stagecraft...
Japanese are almost 100% literate. One in five reads a Noma magazine. Printed cheaply on thin paper, these magazines were the first to appeal to Japan's masses, contain a shrewd mixture of entertainment, information and morality. "The King's" slogan for them all is "highly entertaining and doing a lot of good...