Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...missing five ounces of female brain." If the famous English naturalist had lived to be present this afternoon in Sanders Theatre, where Madame Curie will be honored as the co-discoverer of radium, he would come away with his belief in the inferiority of the feminine intellect dissipated into thin air. Especially would he be delivered of the notion, long held and acquiesced in, that while in some practical fields of mental effort women may be successful, they have no capacity for science. And he would note, also with a sense of awakening, that within the past few days Harvard...
Miss Carol Dumpster, first raised to stardom by Mr. Griffith in "The Love Footer" which was show in Boston some time ago was can as "Gypsy Fair"--the only woman character in the play Her smaller lie body was admirably adapted the role of music-hall dancer; her thin, your pretty face, with its slightly piquant nose and Chile, fitted her part absolutely; her ability to control both her face and body movement, so as to indicate the slightest shade of feeling made her characterization of the part one of the high lights in a production in which...
...injunction, "Agree with thin adversary quickly," is the weapon proposed by Mr. Paul E. Jackson, in "The Glee Club's Name--What of It?" for ending the unprofitable contention regarding that organization. This is a humorous and fairly successful attempt to bring about a reduction ad absurd of the whole disagreement...
Lautner's description is as follows: height about 6 feet 2 inches; slender; light hair, light mustache, light blue eyes, a prominent and long jaw, and thin and prominent nose; age 23; walks very erect. Probably wears a reddish brown suit, a light brown or gray overcoat, a soft felt hat and black shoes...
...wander. Let us return to prose and confess at once that "My Uncle Henry," with his "thin, pale face and faded blue eyes," his immaculately bald head and his "quick, fussy gestures," plays fast and loose not only with his nephew's affections, but with our own. There is, in Stoddard Colby's portrait of the strange codger, a touch of whimsical, wistful drollery that recalls the delicate nuances and half-tones of Lamb. We think of the reminiscent Charles and his "Poor Relations," and that is praise enough. Mr. Colby has achieved the unusual in penetrating through the outward...