Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banging the rostrum as though to smash it, barking his words in thin staccato, turning from side to side and gesticulating so vigorously that his glasses seemed about to fall off, General Dawes delivered one of his best speeches in quite his best, slashing, he-American style...
...raiding London are tense with grim reality. The destruction of this Zeppelin has rarely been rivalled in the whole history of motion picture thrills. Best shot: the Zeppelin nosing through night clouds over London. Not the least talk-provoking thing about Hell's Angels was its producer, young, thin, awkward, very rich, slightly deaf, mentally energetic Howard Hughes, nephew of Novelist Rupert Hughes. His late father controlled a patent on a device necessary to every oil-well drill. With nothing to do. young Hughes became interested in aviation arid the cinema. He produced two successful silent pictures, Two Arabian...
...morning long in Berkeley, Calif., a thin line of black figures crawled down an incline which was massed with others like themselves, crawled like ants across turf to a flower-decked platform, crawled back up and were lost among their fellows. At one end of Memorial Stadium, under the great gilded C which gleams on Berkeley's Charter Hill, the University of California was graduating its largest class. President William Wallace Campbell, 68, mechanically distributed from cabinets which were rolled up to him, 2,596 degrees.* The hot morning wore on. Finally, as he was about to present a gold...
...This custom is being revived to restore interest and make Ivy week the biggest event of a senior's life at Pennsylvanta," says the newspaper. How strange a way to promote campus interest. College seniors as Oliver Twists, Professors with thin skins shun Penn. --Oregon Daily Emerald...
...beauty in his music. Others dismissed him as crude, trifling, freakish (he once set a florist's catalog to music for voice and chamber orchestra). Several important Berlin opinions sided with these last and with the ill-mannered boos which swept the Staatsoper after Christopher Columbus. The music was "thin," a "European scandal." All agreed that Claudel's play was the great contribution, that he at least had shown imagination...