Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frankie Parker: "It was in 1927 that Frankie Parker came into my life. Little shaver, thin, puny, but quiet and attentive. . . . He had the best eye for a moving ball I've ever seen. . . . It took four years of the hardest work to get the boy's title. . . . Last year the wonder boy never lost a set. . . . He is to be the best of the pack...
...Brigg and his bastard son Jonathan quarrel over workers' rights. Brigg marries the daughter of a foreman. Their son, young Brigg, despises his mother a little, courts his cousin Jane, loses her to another foreman, marries into the county peerage. With Young Brigg, the Oldroyd blood begins to thin out. Francis, his son, marries Jane's daughter, finds Syke Mill drifting into ruin after the War. There is not much that he or his boy David can do. After the crash, David jumps off the train on which his father is escaping from Ire Valley, starts back to make, presumably...
...anxious to sell to Japan. In the U. S. the complete text of the Stimson speech was cabled to Japan. Smiling little Ambassador Katsuji Debuchi was called home "on vacation," to give a report on public opinion in the U. S. On his way to Tokyo with his thin, attractive wife and son last week he stopped in San Francisco long enough to have a farewell party with every Japanese consul west of the Rockies. What they said was apparently reassuring. A few hours later Foreign Minister Uchida made his speech to the world...
...Tycoon Stephanson took a fancy to the doctor, offered to make his fortune. His assistant, Nurse Martha, an angel in thin disguise, fell in love with him. His cases kept him busy: a dying old woman who wanted to be kept alive long enough to say good-by to her son; a dope-fiend who had once been a nobleman; his beautiful sister who was almost ready to sell herself to Stephanson; the clever surgeon who had gambled away his reputation and his fortune. By the time the short passage was over Dr. Wohlmut had had enough concentrated experience...
...city stomachs and supply controlled by him and his kind. Farmer John Chalmers of Boone County, Iowa, did not see why agricultural producers could not hold their food stuffs off the urban markets, give townsmen a taste of starvation and thus raise farm prices to a decent level. Tall, thin-lipped Milo Reno, belligerent former president of Iowa Farmers' Union, did not see why, either. Somebody, he argued, was bound to starve at current prices. Last May at the Des Moines Fair Grounds bushy-haired Milo Reno, in baggy trousers and a five-gallon Stetson hat. made a loud...