Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolt from Minnesota convention then took the form of a thin mustache and drooping sideburns. He wrote adventure, mystery and confession stories for the pulps. But laws of nature and economy caught up with him. He went broke, and Betty became pregnant. Back he went to journalism, this time on the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch...
...chill, gilded chamber of the House of Commons was hushed as the neat grey man in the neat grey business suit reached the climax of his speech. In the packed galleries tense, brown-skinned men leaned forward to catch every word. Prime Minister Clement Attlee's thin voice carried a statement fat with destiny. He read...
...Chicago, Barry Stephens, an artists' agent who has looked at legs long enough to tell one Radio City Rockette from another, called a turn: "The scrawny, thin leg is out. A fuller calf and a longer thigh is the trend, and we men see a return to the 'beef trusters.' " Notable among his fuller-calfed, longer-thighed legs: Alice Faye's, Ann Miller's, Betty Grable's. Marlene Dietrich's? "Too skinny...
Right to Left. Boomed the clear, cultured voice of a thin, scholarly-looking man lunching in his heavy ulster at a Soho restaurant: "I say it's the judgment of the Almighty on the British people for voting Socialist...
When Rodzinski stopped, flushed and spent, there was half a minute of pregnant, almost audibly gestating silence. When the Philharmonic's board chairman finally spoke, it was as if a thin sheet of ice had been carefully cracked. And what, said he, had Mr. Rodzinski decided? "Give me 24 hours to think it over," said Rodzinski, and left for home...