Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walls of the Louvre. This is probably one of the truest of his statements. Philip de Chamaigne has clothed the greatest diplomat and statesman of the seventeenth century in an undying personality. The great Duke stands there, hand outstretched with its tendril fingers searching the air. There is the thin Castillian face sharpened by the neat goatee and the craggy nose. And there are too, the imperious, mocking eyes. Over this brilliant figure is thrown the red robe of the most enduring and majestic institution that the world has even seen. It is a convass that stands like...
...fashion that one critic was moved to say, "when you saw old Irving stand before his altar and say the words Becket never really said, you wouldn't give a thought for all the historians in the world." And even now Walter Hampden walks upon the stage with thin Castillian face, sharpened by a neat goatee and craggy nose. About him are the red robes of a Cardinal and he still rolls out the lines of Bulwer-Lytton that youth's bright lexicon knows no word for fare...
...chin, "They got big guns, hey? Twelve inches! Some big guns! We only got little guns, so." The washer of the linen demonstrated the size of the Chinese guns with his hands, leaving the iron to rest on a shirt, but his gesticulation were cut short by a thin wisp of smoke arising from the offended garment. Wing seemed in the best of spirits after this demonstration of his ironing ability, and went on to observe, "We're going to build airplanes, a thousand airplanes, ten thousand airplanes, and we'll go over their big cities and rain bombs...
...theology at the University of Bonn-has attracted an immense following. Like a wan light amid disillusion and doubt, Barthianism nourishes in German and Swiss universities. Religious socialists join in, go on working for social betterment although it will not change mankind. Man achieves nothing. Christian Philosopher Barth, thin, stooped, slightly weak-eyed but rather jolly, does not evangelize. He will not come to the U. S. because the U. S. is too worldly. Nevertheless his U. S. admirers-who are many-wish he would come because they believe he would take the disillusioned, disappointed colleges by storm...
...height at which W. B. Page barely managed to hurl himself over an old-fashioned square bar in 1888 for the first U. S. high jump record, he cleared the bar as easily as a kitten hopping across a spool. Best of the field against him was a thin coffee-colored Negro, Howard Spencer, of Geneva College, who, even more eccentric than Spitz, wore one shoe and jumped with his right foot bare. Spencer took three tries and missed before Spitz reached 6:7. Later, with the bar at 6:9, considerably higher than one of the judges could reach...