Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon of July 3, 1863, with the echoes of the greatest cannonade in U. S. history just dying away among the Gettysburg hills, a burly bearded officer nodded his head, sent Pickett and some 7,000 men across the open fields to their hopeless assault. That charge, whose last thin waves lapped up through the Union centre, was the high-water mark of the Confederacy. The officer whose nod sent Pickett's column to its doom was General James Longstreet. Around his burly figure the battle-smoke of partisan controversy has hung thick ever since. Did Longstreet lose...
...cinema dealing with songwriters might well take Warren & Dubin for two type characters. Composer Warren is nearsighted and thin, suffers from nervous indigestion, a relic of the days of silent pictures when he played the piano in the old Vitagraph studios, attempted to provide an atmosphere that would inspire the actors...
...small, thin, white-haired man of 67 last week sat with his wife in the gallery of the House of Representatives and watched himself become the 13th man in U. S. history to be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.* He was U. S. District Judge Halsted Lockwood Ritter of Florida. As in the last two impeachments voted by the House (Judge George W. English of Illinois in 1926 and Judge Harold Louderback of California in 1932), the charge, in effect, was skulduggery for private profit in bankruptcy cases...
Chairman of National Lead is Iowa-born Edward Joel Cornish, 74, thin-haired but still square jawed. From 1882 to 1906 he practiced law in Omaha. One of his clients was Levi Carter, head of Carter White Lead Co. After Mr. Carter's death in 1903, Mr. Cornish became president of Carter Lead, sold the company to National Lead in 1906, ten years later became National's president. In 1933 he moved up to the chairmanship, was succeeded by Fred Mason Carter, who is old Levi Carter's nephew...
...mother, Mrs. Dorothea Livermore Long-cope, was charged with assault with intent to murder, released pending, appearance in court next week. His father, famed stock-trader, flew to Santa Barbara with his third wife, secured legal custody of his son. Last week Son Jesse walked out of the hospital, thin but well, chose to return to his mother...