Word: thinly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Duchess could be far more impressive on the stage than it ever seemed last week. Even with Poet Auden's cuts* the play had, perhaps, to be slow of pace. But it did not have to be so barren of atmosphere or thin of texture. Nor need it have been acted, and frequently overacted, in so many manners with so little style. Only Elisabeth Bergner as the Duchess played with anything like stature. Passable in an important role, and using whiteface, was Negro Actor Canada...
...this year's U.S. crop is the smallest in 25 years and 2) textile mills, in peak production, have been using up cotton at 150% of the peacetime rate. But it was only a question of time till cotton buyers and speculators who had spread themselves too thin realized that the comparatively small U.S. carryover from this year (7,500,000 bales) would nevertheless be ample, and that textile mills were bound to taper buying. That time came last week, with a rush...
...thin, tight-mouthed men with outsize cars who were spotted around Jordan Hall Tuesday night at the Josh White Concert may, it was rumored, have been card-carrying members of the Watch and Ward. If so, they'll probably be back in human guise Saturday, just to enjoy the proceedings, for White proved that he can be vastly entertaining without being suggestive...
...radio listeners did not hear this version. Reason: after rehearsal NBC censors slashed Allen's script. Deleted by the thin-skinned network: all mention of hucksters, jerks, "old P.U.," etc. At the last minute, Allen had to write out some of his best lines to make his lyrics rhyme...
Newshawks had been warned that they were going to meet a man in poor health. They met a man as thin, brittle and white as a stick of chalk, who at the age of 58 looked 70. He shuddered with palsy. His face was shrunken tightly against his fine skull. His cheeks drooped wearily below his mouth. It was not until he had walked swiftly, but shakily, towards them and had taken his seat, that newsmen noticed much about him that was still youthful and perhaps more impressive than even before: the graceful, aquiline head; the quality of finality...