Word: thins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fair way to be a literary pariah because of its uncompromising frankness and defiance of the literary code of ethics. If someone questions the ethical importance of the modern novel, the least any reader can say is that Mr. Washburn displays a diabolical clever less in the thin veneer of coarseness he spreads over his famous plot...
Half an hour before the Nominee's arrival at the Coliseum, appeared the man who once called him "the deadliest foe of moral progress in America," thin-lipped hot-eyed Parson John Roach Straton. There was some altercation, but Dr. Straton clutched his ticket. He had promised to behave. He was admitted and took a seat at the back of the platform. His presence intensified the Nominee's grim earnestness. It was a real Moment in the campaign...
...number of Harvard Library Notes does not overstep the bounds of scholarship's conservatism when it calls the William Allen White gift of Shakespearean Quartos "the capstone on Harvard's collection of English literature ... comparable with the greatest gifts the Library has received in the past." The eighty-eight thin volumes, which would hardly fill a single shelf of the ordinary stacks, have been examined by the college librarians since the announcement in June of the edition. Their findings give point to their assay of the gift. Of the forty-four separate editions of Shakespeare which were published before...
...from the big city. His nifty derby tells you that at once. And as you follow down you find a starched blue collar on shirt to match. Tie of sombre hue, is neatly in place with an exceedingly small knot over the pin. Vest is in prominent display, and thin gold chain stretches from upper pocket to upper pocket with a slight dip. Breast pocket display cousists of corner of handkerchief with tiny monogram. Perfect crease leads the eye down to slightly wide cuffs breaking on over polished shoes. If it were but slightly colder, an immaculate Chesterfield would...
...days after the great Dr. Hideyo Noguchi died in Africa (TIME, May 28) under the hot sun of northeastern Japan a woman was spading her wheat fields. Her hands were squarish; the palms rough, the backs faintly ridged with thin veins. Her face, rugged and serene, showed her 50 odd years...