Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next the hands caught up thin flat muscles from the scalp, swung them around and under the loose cheek skin, anchored them at the girl's lip. Quick stitches joined the open parts of the face. Before the operation, the patient had been unable to move a muscle of the left side of her face. Two weeks later, another picture showed, the girl could wink, smile, purse her lips...
...many years a pupil of Kenneth Hayes Miller, who paints similar subjects, Artist Citron is apparently essaying the well-known Miller technique, with the effect that her paintings paraphrase the work of Satirist Reginald Marsh. Her colors are the same, so is her drawing, so are her thin oils on gesso covered wooden panels...
...Over these bits of good news Generalissimo Chiang smacked his thin lips, enjoying tea with "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang. This gilded Chinese youth fell heir to the fabulous loot of his mighty War Lord sire, the late, great Chang Tso-lin, drinker of hot tigers' blood and toyer with hotter women. Last week the Young Marshal was still trying to make good, fooling around the Communist war zone in his shiny new Boeing plane...
...Cream, thin...
...shadow rippled across the tops of the trees and blotted the bars of the sun on the brook. It flickered for a second on the little girl's bare feet and was gone. And again it swerved over and disappeared. Back in the meadow, something swooped down and the thin, quivering squeal of a field mouse hung in the hot, stagnant air and was stifled...