Word: thinner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With such sulphurous words safely expanding into ever thinner air, interest centred again directly upon M. Loucheur. When that notable millionaire-financial expert accepted the post of Finance Minister he declared ruefully. "I shall soon be the most unpopular man in France." His prophecy has proved true...
...pink traveling man, who had shut his eyes for a last 20 winks before his mid-afternoon train pulled into Atlanta, sat up with a start. A great shout had awakened him?a shout billowing from thousands of male throats like a sultry banner, striped with the thinner, brighter cries that issue from the female larynx; a shout that had cast, as it unfurled, its majestic shadow upon the smoking-room. The traveling man stepped to the basin and began furiously to wash his face...
Each succeeding reunion of the G. A. R. finds its ranks thinner as, one by one, their comrades go to rest. It may be that, 50 years hence, there will be a reunion of newspapers that published crossword puzzles-but already their ranks are thinning. Two papers have dropped out within a few days: The Chicago Daily Tribune, The Atlanta Constitution...
...brilliant and the chilly sniffed; Galli-Curci sang. Her first song was Se tu m'ami, an old fall warm as the yellow wine, soft as the jargoning fountains of Italy. That was a mistake. Her next, a number from Dinorah, came more welcomely; it had a thinner flavor. The coldness of her music increased; the warmth of the audience increased commensurably. She sang Bishop's Pretty Mocking Bird, the Polonaise from Mignon. Then the Mad Scene from Luna-flight upon flight of crazy silver bells pealing in a ruined steeple rimed with frost. That cold, brilliant audience...
Baron Krupp von Bohlen: "Still in the Düsseldorf jail, I have grown considerably thinner...