Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year U. S. District Judge Charles Irvin Dawson of Louisville upheld the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Act "with extreme reluctance." Then this thin-lipped Southern Republican began to bear down on the New Deal in earnest. In quick succession he declared illegal the condemnation of private property for PWA slum clearance, the NRA Bituminous Coal Code (TIME, March 11). Last week Judge Dawson struck his third blow by ruling AAA's Kerr-Smith Tobacco Control Act unconstitutional...
...thin face flushing. Sir John replied: "My impression is that Reichchsführer Hitler would consider such a plan dangerous and objectionable...
Eighty-Five Years, by Eugene Hutchinson of Manhattan, a study of two, thin clasped hands against a black dress...
...spectacle of Clay Dalzell's suave bar manners are much more stimulating than the mystery which he solves in Star of Midnight, and it will be no surprise to the thirsty audience to learn that a barfly is responsible for the crime. Cinemaddicts who enjoyed The Thin Man, recognized master print for all cocktail and wisecrack crime cinemas, should find Star of Midnight an entertaining and not too sedulous copy. Good shot: Clay Dalzell getting gaily...
...dogs as Dr. Johnson, who was no expert, and who certainly did not learn what he knew from wiping his greasy fingers, after dinner, on the ready back of a collie. It is important, observed Dr. Johnson, that the bull-dog possess tenuity; the hind-legs must be relatively thin. Everybody attributes tenacity, as a moral quality, to the breed, and some Englishmen seem quite content for John Bull, who takes his name and characteristics from it, to be regarded as the national archetype. The other breeds, most of which are represented in this volume, also connote various spiritual attributes...