Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since Pilsudski's death last year, the Polish Government has tried to convince the Polish people that Rydz-Smigly is a man of the same stern, lusty stripe. Actually Rydz-Smigly is a polite, modest gentleman with a bald head, whose thin lips are his only evidence of severity. Before he joined the revolutionary Pilsudski Legion in 1914, he was an art student, specializing in landscapes...
...lama of the Kum Bum Monastery vanished into thin...
This week Dr. Cannon published a thin volume called The Science of Hypnotism.* Since the author is a capable practitioner of hypnotism and uses it every day on London's sane and insane, U. S. psychiatrists were professionally interested, regardless of what they thought of his divagations into yogism, perfect numbers, symbolism of colors. Dr. Cannon discusses not only his own methods but those of such pioneers as Mesmer and Charcot, of such well-known hypnotists as Bernheim, Binet, Féré, Liebeault, Lloyd Tuckey. It is generally agreed among psychiatrists that hypnotism is of value in treating...
...development. At the age of 41 he has produced some 24 books, including novels, plays, poems, anthologies, travel books, essays, charting his progression from an accomplished satirist to a troubled moralist, from a contented mocker at contemporary society to an earnest preacher to it. Tall (over 6 ft.), extremely thin, bookish, Aldous Huxley gave up his plan to be a doctor at 17, when he nearly went blind. At 20 he published his first book, The Burning Wheel, a volume of poems. After the War he became an art, music and dramatic critic, was on the staff of London House...
Married. Myrna Loy, 31, sloe-eyed, Montana-born cinemactress (The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld); and Arthur Hornblow Jr., 43, scenarist, associate producer for Paramount; at Ensenada, Lower California, Mexico...