Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thin red line," " 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy," "Sun comes up like Thunder," "Rag and a bone and a hank o' hair," "Oh East is East, etc.," "The tumult and the shouting dies," "Lest we forget," "The flanneled fools at the wicket, or the muddied oafs at the goals," "Who dies if England Live?" "Sisters under their skins," "The 'eathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone," "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din," and many another...
Kidnaping. Meanwhile the bandit leader had ordered Joseph Ruff and the Zahlers back into their car. "This is the man we want!" he said pointing to Mr. Rosenthal, who stood shivering in the rain, clad only in a thin summer suit...
...people hot, delicate and windy, has schooled his natural haste into precision. His eye is cool; his strokes are like insults uttered in a careful voice. But the man of legend is a Jack of a different silk. Bleak in person and in countenance, sprung of a thin and righteous line of thee-and-thouers, he has sharpened caution into vehemence: every bravery of his stride is his, every fine conceit of skill and insolence. For a while his thundering ways prevailed, and the crowd cheered; then the soft-spoken stranger won back his lost advantage and more...
Tall and muscular, he kept his hairless, perfumed bronze body immaculate, especially his teeth, "white as hailstones," which stood far apart from assiduous picking. He eschewed jewelry but put antimony on his eyebrows to sharpen his sight. He let a black wilderness of beard riot down to conceal one thin line of fur on his deep chest, but he clipped his mustache. On special occasions he shaved his poll. Divinely conferred, a large mole adorned his back...
...among you. and it is with modest humility that I say this, it was among you that I became great. All that I am, and I need not tell you all that I am, I owe in part at least to you, my friends through thick and thin, and the thinner the thicker...