Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived there six years, it is also a queer place. Says he: "The Congo is not more different from Massachusetts or Kansas or California." His book, an anecdotal narrative of some of his experiences in Alabama, goes far toward bearing out his thesis. But Alabamians would have to be thin-skinned indeed to object to the tone of Author Carmer's remarks. Though he makes many an explicit criticism, points silently at some grim conclusions, he also tosses many a bouquet, with a grace that does credit to his hosts...
...vivacious little hairdresser (Lilian Harvey). The song was written for and dedicated to her by her sweetheart, an ambitious young musician. He does not much mind losing her when he gets a chance to conduct the opera company that the Duke supports. Slight, implausible, edged with a thin glitter of cruelty and sentiment, Heart Song illustrates an important point in cinema technique. In Hollywood, the accepted procedure for musical films is to elaborate and enlarge. Heart Song, which was financed by Fox and Gaumont British for UFA production, strives, like most of Director Erich Pommer's productions...
...libraries. Behind silver-rimmed spectacles his blue eyes are spring cool. Thin-lipped, with a slow, warm, easy smile, he talks softly in a rich baritone. He is an unspectacular but able public speaker, much in demand. For an opener he can generally get a laugh with this old chestnut: "A mugwump is a fellow with his mug on one side of the fence and his wump on the other." In personal life Harold Dodds might be any one of 10,000 college professors, except that he has no children. For fun and exercise he plays golf; a 90 delights...
...lean, thin-lipped, high-strung writer named Louis Burgess, who turned out editorials for $75 a week on Hearst's San Francisco Examiner until last spring, when he was elected chairman of the Guild's newly organized Examiner chapter. Three weeks later the Examiner discharged him "for the sake of economy." Louis Burgess complained to the NRA Regional Labor Board which, amid considerable uproar, heard his case last fortnight. Hearst was represented by his brainy lawyer John Francis Neylan and Clarence Lindner, general manager of the Examiner...
Suction slots through which a fan inside the wing sucks air, control the thin stratum of air ("boundary layer") next the upper surface of the wings, increase lift 150% using only 2% of a light airplane's power...