Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philosophy: Tall, gangling, sandy-haired Philosopher Smith accepts his success in politics as natural enough. He attributes it to: 1) his homespun personality (he is "Tom" and not T. V. or Professor Smith on the radio); 2) his thin but intimate radio voice, which listeners so persistently confused with Alexander Woollcott's, that in desperation he invited Woollcott to talk on one of his programs; and 3) his political philosophy. His philosophy: that politicians are not supposed to evolve their own ideas but to evolve compromise programs. He thinks legislation should be written by experts, steered by politicians...
Carefree (RKO Radio). London's Vauxhall Gardens in the 19th Century boasted a carver who could slice ham so thin that one of his hams, it was said, would pave the entire grounds. Waiters serving his translucent slices outdoors held them down with their fingertips to keep them from blowing away. Like all films in which Fred Astaire has figured prominently, Carefree is important for its melancholy songs and its brisk, high-spirited dancing. The farce between the dances, however, is sliced paper-thin...
...North's womenfolk: Louise Platt, the refined, ladylike girl who learns to love the ruggedness of it all, Dorothy Lamour, appearing in a turtleneck sweater instead of a sarong but with the same effect, as a tough tavern-keeper who will stick to George Raft through thick & thin, no matter what people think...
...ship Refrigerator No, 1 was halted by the Japanese, her captain and crew thrown into jail. Japanese authorities questioned their Red captives about the number and equipment of Soviet armed forces facing Manchukuo. To force answers they used the dread Oriental bastinado, beat the soles of the Reds with thin strips of bamboo. On top of this ancient torture, a favorite in China for thousands of years, the Japanese produced electric wires, sparked and shocked the Russians' bleeding soles...
Hopkins. The dullest of the quartet, "Uncle" Mark Hopkins was the only one who weighed less than 200 lb. Thin, worried, cautious, lazy, stubborn, plaintive, he ate little meat, drank no liquor and, even as a wealthy man, grew vegetables for his own table, selling the surplus. When he planned a quiet cottage on Nob Hill, his fun-loving wife, who greatly admired the romantic novels of Ouida, took over the planning of it, turned it into a huge mass of towers, gables, and steeples, with a dining room to seat 60 guests, a bedroom inlaid with ivory, ebony...