Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Same Meat Sirs: Need Hitlerite "Bait" Rosenberg waste all those words to explain a concept of holiness [TIME, Sept. 30]? Twenty-one years ago, it was compacted into the simple phrase, "Gott mit Vns." The world understood it then and still does understand it. And no matter how thin Spiritualist Rosenberg may slice it, it will always taste the same, and will always be recognized as the same ill-served, German-adopted variety of meat. RALPH C. WELCH Schenectady...
...warming when Anthony summons the police to keep them quiet. The splondid psychological outlining of Anthony's defiant but helpless rage is contained in a piece of writing that makes the whole book worth buying. He grows more and more unbalanced in his broodings, while his wife in her "thin vagnoly quavoring voice" keeps complaining...
When Public Service Electric & Gas Co. undertook to run its Roseland-to-Metuchen high-tension line through Scotch Plains, N. J. eight years ago, it found its way blocked by a colony of prosperous, high-spirited Poles. To John Crempa, 46, thin, hot-tempered U. S. Army veteran and journeyman tailor, the company offered $800 for the necessary strip of land through his property. Crempa demanded $100,000, and even after the company had the Crempa land condemned and posted the awarded $800 with the court, Crempa refused to take it, raised his price to $150,000. He began...
...Supreme Court of Illinois and an injunction against the Waitresses' Union while his poems were meeting their first extraordinary response. Born in Garnett, Kans., in 1869, he had spent most of his life in Illinois, where he learned the printing trade, worked on newspapers, studied law and wrote thin volumes of conventional verse. Like so many of his generation he looked upon poetry less as an art to be practiced than as a message to be preached, placing it on an eminence almost beyond human reach. When William Marion Reedy, after reading the first Spoon River poems, heaped extravagant...
...sturdy, unbending, uncommunicative, with a reputation for gruffness, Edgar Lee Masters lives in an obscure hotel in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, seldom appears at New York literary gatherings. Since he dresses carelessly, wears heavy spectacles and a characteristic expression of thin-lipped disapproval, he looks not unlike some Midwestern deacon described in Spoon River Anthology. Baldish, he dislikes being photographed except when wearing a hat. Hilary, his 7-year-old son by his second marriage, summers with him in New York, winters in Kansas City with his mother...