Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beside a song hit presumptive: "When Gentlemen Grew Whiskers and Ladies Grew Old," this musical comedy has Queenie Smith, as ever a charming twinkle-toes. After an uncertain first night it picked up considerably, and is the first clean show with a Greenwich Village setting in many a year. Thin...
...coolies. Over 500 wounded soldiers were brought in during the week from the battle lines defending Shanghai;† but simultaneously Shanghai Chinese were calling at one another's homes to pay off debts contracted during the old year and to present huge New Year's "cards" on thin red paper. New China was embattled; but old China was celebrating...
...Paris, after several years in London, lives a thin-bearded, long, supple blade of a man, middle-ag-ing but of feverish vitality, whom "the foremost English novelist" (Ford Madox Ford) calls "the greatest living poet." This is not cant between members of a mutual adulation society. Many an-other able artist pays homage to Novelist Ford's bearded friend. They consult him about their pictures, statues, books, love affairs. They are not dazzled by his often eccentric habits and raiment, seeing within him a spirit like a flame blown in the wind. He is a genuine "original...
...Horace Greeley was a onetime schoolmistress who never learned to keep house. A contemporary thus described her: "Mrs. Greeley was a woman rather below the medium size, thin, with dark hair and eyes. She had thin lips, irregular and somewhat defective teeth. There was little expression in her face, but that little was rather against her. She spoke quickly?not peevishly, nor angrily, as a rule, but her words had a kind of crack like the report of a rifle." Horace was kind and patient with this woman whom he addressed as "Mother." She kept cows which "Mother says shall...
Justly, His Holiness was perturbed. From the thin Papal lips came a rebuke austere and measured: "The principles of the Fascist party are being enforced and interpreted in many cases by men who, under new names and new banners, remain enemies to the state and to religion...