Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the islands as if they had never heard of them. Many a Senator voted to censure him for the Eyanson affair because of a longstanding irritation with what they considered his scholastic arrogance, his mental self-satisfaction. The tallest Senator (6 ft. 4 in.), he is lanky and thin-shouldered, though he carries his height well. Onetime Senator Jim Reed of Missouri, who disliked him intensely, referred to him sneeringly in debate as "The Tall Cedar of Lebanon." His features have an Indian regularity, almost handsome. His expression is one of serene superiority. His soft snow-white hair stands...
...prime event. Clerks scuttled across thick-rugged floors in more-than-ordinary haste. Lawyers swung in and out of doorways bearing armfuls of documents. Typists rattled their keys with a triumphant staccato. In a high-ceiled inner room overlooking Trinity Church's grimy spire, an elderly man with thin white hair, a well-trimmed white beard parted in the middle, good solid shoulders and a small paunch, sat bolt upright in a stiff high-backed chair. The pivot of all the commotion, he was intensely busy?and intensely happy. Within a few days, God willing, he would become the eleventh...
...after the Fort speech, short thin-haired, hawk-faced Representative Frederick Reimold Lehlbach, also from New Jersey but an avowed Wet, arose in the House to answer his colleague. Insisting that the aim of Prohibition was to stop drinking, Congressman Lehlbach exclaimed...
Flushed by his first victory, driving, kinetic M. Tardieu then presented the conference with his plan of procedure. When this had been haggled over and slightly modified, James Ramsay MacDonald said poetically to reporters: "The partition between our position and the French is now so thin that if you should place a candle on one side you could see it from the other...
...flame starting thin and blue at the corner of a sealed envelope, then spurting up yellow, crawling to the other corners, leaving a big curly cinder, transfixed the attention and curiosity of three high officials of the Salvation Army in a London barrister's office last week. The envelope was the one in which, last year, the late General William Bramwell Booth enclosed the name of the person whom he had chosen to succeed him as worldwide commander of the Army. None dared open the envelope for the dissension it might cause. Some think he named his daughter Catherine...