Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon looms up as one of the biggest mid-October days in football history. Coaches, alumni, and undergraduates throughout the East will find out where their team stand. Dopesters who have been manufacturing their columns out of thin air will find a definite basis for their prognostications...
Ernst Vajda has contributed two additional entertainments for our artistic edification-Grounds for Divorce and The Little Angel. Appearing in one and the same week, they illustrated a pretty little pamphlet that might be drawn up on theatrical production. For the plan of Grounds for Divorce is thin, almost out at the elbows, while the Little Angel is nourished with sustaining spice of satire. But Grounds for Divorce has Ina Claire and it is Ina Claire that makes it the pick of the Vajda basket...
Rotund and rollicking, dour and dignified, thin and thoughtful, the mature members of the U. S. Seniors' Golf Association foregathered at Rye, N. Y., for their annual fest. Not one was there but had spanned 55 years; some had seen 65, some 70, some 75, some 80. When the last score had been totted up in the national senior championship, Claude M. Hart of Boston and Henry S. Redfield of Hartford were found to -be tied at 161 for the 36 holes. They agreed to meet later and have...
...Supreme Court; Kursky, Commissioner of Justice; Minjiniki Elyava, Head of the Trans-Caucasian Federation; Karl Redek, famed diplomat; another arch-devil, Bela Kun, quondam Red Dictator of Hungary. In the dock a small man, quite bald, about 45, dressed in a cheap double-breasted grey sack suit and a thin black tie. His face was reminiscent of a youthful Napoleon, but "cadaverous and drawn with deep shadows under the eyes." He was unafraid and viewed the spectators lazily. He was the arch-desperado, Gen. Boris Savinkov...
...garages. Though no prominent printing appeared on the pasters, they were advertisements for Jantzen swimming-wear for women. When slim, beauti-formed bathing girls proved popular, the company then tried out a clumsy, fat, comic mermodel for use on trucks, flivvers, etc. Circulation: 100,000 fat; 300,000 thin...