Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME'S Editor is tall and thin...
...business of placing the condemned man in the electric chair is quickly and simply done. Then-"as the switch is thrown into its socket there is a sputtering drone, and the body leaps as if to break the strong leather straps that hold it. Sometimes a thin gray wisp of smoke pushes itself out from under the helmet that holds the head electrode, followed by the faint odor of burning flesh. The hands turn red, then white, and the cords of the neck stand out like steel bands. After what seems an age, but is. in fact, only two minutes...
...Sweden, King Alfonso had greatly (perhaps politely) praised a thin, hard, and nearly tasteless rye bread or biscuit, famed in Sweden as knaeckebroed. Shrewdly a Swedish baker approached the admiral of the Principe Alfonso. "Might not His Majesty like a box of knaeckebroed to take home with him?" The Admiral thought he might...
Even those who thought the Grenfell innuendoes thin were impressed by the man Edward Charles Grenfell. His father was Governor of the Bank of England. His Great Grandfather was Governor of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation. He is the fourth of his name in direct line to be an M. P., and the third to be a director of the Bank of England. In London's busy "City" few tycoons are more potent...
...astounding "Grande Catherine" of this orgy is a woman of 42. Her dark determined eyes seemed never to waver under police querying. When she had answered a question her straight almost lipless mouth shut in a thin, flat line. At her sumptuous estate in Boulogne, where she was arrested, she said disdainfully to the somewhat excited and strenuous investigators: "Here are my keys. You need not trouble to burst open my drawers and root in them like cochons." Even in jail she seemed undiscouraged. "My arrest, pouf! It is nothing," she said, "I work by American methods...