Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Benny Leonard retired as lightweight champion of the world in 1924. only one man (Ritchie Mitchell) had mussed his sleek brown hair in many a long battle. Last week in Madison Square Garden, Benny Leonard was wiping stringy thin hair out of his eyes 30 seconds after tough Jimmy McLarnin began to hit him. The pudgy Canadian welter- weight shook his head at the hardest blows Leonard's bowarms could deliver. What was left, at 36, of the cleverest boxer the lightweight division ever knew was knocked down in the second round. In the sixth he could...
...Check Girl (Fox) sets out as a fable of true love in Manhattan between a hat check girl (Sally Eilers) and a millionaire's son (Ben Lyon). Finding this theme thin as well as improbable, it pads itself out with winter sports scenes, night club shows, the slimy trail of a blackmailing scandal-sheet editor, underworld ramifications, subway interludes. The unreality of the proceedings is heightened by the two leading players' conflicting ideas of what the picture is about. Ben Lyon tries ably to play it as light comedy. Sally Eilers, stiff and strained, registering emotion by twisting...
...sides. But it cannot well be denied that Mr. MacDonald is in a wholly anomalous situation. To remain at the head of a government, whose commercial policy is definitely opposed to his own, can offer the Prime Minister little save personal and political discomfiture. That he chooses to follow thin course is the best possible testimony not only of the sincerity of his belief that the National Government is best fitted to meet the crises but also of his patriotism...
...Relaxed competition between lines where traffic is too thin to support more than one road; abandonment of non-paying mileage where transportation needs can be otherwise...
Next day the family and crew built a flimsy shelter with stones and a piece of fabric stripped from the plane. From clambering over the rocks in thin shoes, the children's feet were bruised and bleeding. New shoes were fashioned from life preserver covers. Soup and coffee were warmed over an alcohol flame. As the second night began the group split a quart of champagne which Mrs. Hutchinson had saved...