Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would have Secretary of the Treasury Mills at his elbow. "Good-by, Mr. President." "Good-by, Governor." Governor Roosevelt's adviser is Raymond Moley, 46-year-old professor of public law at Columbia University. An expert on criminal procedure rather than international economics, Professor Moley is a stocky, thin-haired pedagog who began his career as an Ohio schoolteacher. As Governor of New York, Al Smith first discovered him as a useful citizen to have in the background. Long a Roosevelt friend, he accompanied the Democratic nominee this fall on his campaign travels as chief factfinder and statistician...
Devotees who have visited the warm musty sanctum on Baker Street, who have seen thin, ascetic fingers cure Quietly around an hypodermic who hart watched a spare figure draped unhand somely in tweed and mufflers despots in the swirl of a London fog, in short all who know Hoimes as Doyle conceived him, will turn from this latest atrocity with grim sentiments...
...Trafalgar Column and saw the line of bobbies hold. A second mob, however, had rushed down Whitehall, 5,000 strong, heading for No. 10 Downing St., the residence of Prime Minister MacDonald. This mob was briefly checked, until police reserves could rush up and beat it back, by a thin line of ornate, scarlet-coated heroes, the Royal Horse Guards?erroneously supposed by tourists to be good for nothing but the ceremony of "changing the guard...
...Church, at 114th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, was once all white. The southward spread of Harlem has turned it Negro by 300 souls to 50. Much vexed were a group of white vestrymen, led by one Manuel Jesus Roure, who blamed it all upon the rector, a lank, thin-lipped onetime curate of Trinity Church named Rev. Rollin Dodd. The vestry ordered Rector Dodd to cease encouraging the Negroes. When he refused the vestry asked him to resign, stopped his salary. When this failed they had the church closed, "for repairs,'' and the locks changed. Declaring...
...that day. Added to a good reporter's alertness to detail were O'Malley's Irish humor and sensitivity to pathos. Combined they made him a master of the human interest story. Also they enabled him to whip out columns of newspaper humor when news was thin. The Sun printed them at prodigious length...