Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tempestuous issue of Religion breaking at his feet. On Prohibition he said nothing. He preached a gospel of "American individualism," promised a "job for every man," grew rhapsodic over "the home," vowed that only his election could perpetuate Republican prosperity. One might have thought he was running against thin air for all the notice he took of the energetic, loud-speaking, issue-raising, far-traveling Brown Derby. His cautious, banal campaign was unsatisfying to those citizens who prefer a direct discussion of immediate issues to a lofty dissertation on the abstractions of American idealism...
...bird's, with the trailing edge of the front wing fluted, or "feathered." Scarcely less mysterious to the inhabitants of the field was the ship's inventor, Emry Davis, 74, retired manufacturer of inkstands and inks from which he was said to have earned a fortune. Thin, white-moustached, immaculate and somewhat irascible, Inventor Davis was totally uncommunicative about his venture. On one occasion, it is said, he ordered two Department of Commerce inspectors out of his hangar...
Cartoonist Walter Disney, 30, thin and dark, gives his collaborators no publicity. He is the originator and so far as the world knows the sole creator of Mickey Mouse's doings. Eleven years ago he was working on the Kansas City Star, drifted to Hollywood where he produced pictures combining people and cartoons. When the sound device was invented he originated his famed rodent, devising a method to make the Mickey Mouse musical scores synchronize perfectly with the action. It takes from 6,000 to 7,000 drawings to make one reel (650-750 ft.) of Mickey Mouse film...
With his music Taylor did not get off to a happy start. In the opening ballroom scene the waltz which he had long aspired to do in the Strauss genre was muddled and thin. The singing on the stage seemed to have little relation to the rambling accompaniment in the pit. Things improved with the beginning of the dream music, much of which was based on French folk songs. The orchestration took on a lovely, flowing sheen. Interludes in the manner of Pelleas et Melisande linked the scenes. Theatrically effective was the music for the scene in which Peter...
...because the alligator basking in the sun is her idea of imperviousness to environment personified. "And not only alligators! If you want to be soft, think of yourself as a rose. If you want to be hard, unchanging, think of a sphinx. . . . If you thought of yourself as a thin person and lived as a thin person, I really think you would end by being thin...