Word: thins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GALLERY OF CHILDREN?A. A. Milne?McKay ($3.50). The author of When We Were Very Young (TIME, Jan. 19) recaptures hearts with these diverting stories for children. The book is one of those big, square, thin books, meant to be read while lying on your tummy, on the floor, in the flicker of firelight. Exquisite pictures, in color, by H. Willebeek Le Maire perfect its charm. There are twelve tales. You like each one best, as you read it, and re-reading them repeats the experience?either backward or forward. Typical verse...
...orchestra of strings played a waltz. There was no confusion. The diplomats did not hear a single ribald chuckle of jazz; the charity strutters were not bored by the supplications of fiddle strings. Reporters asked Dr. Heyl questions. Said he: "The partition is made of hair felt, supported by thin boards of sugar-cane fibre, and the musical sounds become tangled and lost in this wilderness of hair and fibre. Hair, fibre and similar pliable substances, we have found, enmesh and deaden sound which would vibrate through the strongest steel...
...Good Friday, April 21, 1916, the German submarine U-719 eased up out of the sea off the west coast of Ireland. As the conning tower hatch was raised, a tall, thin, cadaverous Irishman with thick black hair and a pointed beard looked out. His complexion, deeply tanned during the long years he had spent serving the British Crown in the tropics, was now grown sallow and his forehead showed a network of tiny lines. Though Edward VII had knighted him, he was now about to commit the last act in a conspiracy of high treason against the realm...
...morning last week he got up too late to eat breakfast. As the hours passed he noticed that the air was getting curiously dark. A little drum pounded in the back of his neck. Suddenly his bell slipped out of his hand and jangled, with a thin note, to the pavement. Mr. Zobel pitched forward on his face. Death, said the city doctors, had resulted from heart failure...
...Rachael Galpern, 14, was taking a hot soap-bath before going to a party. Hearing a slight scratching in the ceiling above her, she raised her eyes in time to see a pointed grey face peer at her from a hole in the plaster. The hole widened, the thin mortar crumbled, and an enormous black rat fell into the water with her, splashed about, caressed her with its clammy paws and insolently ogled her. Rachael screamed; Mrs. Galpern rushed in and killed the rat with a poker. That evening at the party when a little boy exclaimed "Oh, rats!" Rachael...