Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Parker, whom Beasley characterized as "thin, puny, but quiet and attentive," learned Beasley accuracy and strategy, developed several trick strokes-notably "the shovel"-but never perfected a strong forehand or learned to force his opponent. Two months ago, Mercer Beasley, on his way to become coach of the Bermuda Lawn Tennis Club, learned that the wife he had married a year before this puny boy's birth was about to divorce him and marry the boy. Said he: "If I've lost a love set-well, chin...
Dangerous to Know (Paramount) is a glowering melodrama with artless plot, artful production. Akim Tamiroff, alumnus of the Moscow Art Theatre, has had 60-odd Hollywood roles, nearly all of them brooding and villainous, most of them whiskery. In this picture he is a thin-mustached, esthetic bigwig racketeer who tunes his moods to Tchaikovsky or Wagner, keeps a slinky-eyed hostess (Anna May Wong), is dangerous to know because he eliminates occasional associates with sad-eyed sadism. With his town's financial and civic agencies pretty well in thrall he makes the social error of trying to snare...
STRANGERS-Claude Houghton-Macmillan ($2.50). Story of a happily married Englishman who drifts into a love affair with the daughter of an old friend, keeps the relationship on a high-minded plane, and returns in time to save his son's life. A thin but convincing account of a familiar triangle, a thinner and unconvincing account of emotional difficulties solved semi-mystically...
During Chicago's International Air Show, the Assistant Secretary of War, thin-haired, pipe-smoking Colonel Louis Arthur Johnson, puffed out a big boast: "No matter what anyone may say, the United States is supreme today in airplanes-supreme in quality and in numbers." Colonel Johnson declared "the numbers stand about as follows: U. S. (on hand and under construction) 16,000; France 11,000; Russia 10,000; Great Britain 9,000; Germany 8,000; Italy 7,000; Japan 7,000." Listeners knew he must be including every last U. S. airplane, from flivver to biggest Army bomber. They...
...last week's Archives of Physical Therapy, Dr. Hans Weisz & associates of the University of Vienna reported that they spread out a frog's tongue until it was very thin, and kept it in that shape by lacing it to a U-shaped glass rod. This arrangement enabled them to see and prove that ultrashort waves heat only the flesh and do not alter the blood vessels of that part of the body exposed to them, and that the electricity produces no effect other than that of pure heat, an important fact for physiotherapists to know...