Word: thins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...raising of chickens. Applicable to this, they are also applicable to the raising of children. Rickets, a disease of calcium metabolism, is found in marked or minor form in 97 out of every 100 city babies?babies who are kept indoors in the winter. In the spring, they are thin, lumpy, febrile. They have rickets...
...eldest son, is a small, thin, well-groomed prince. He has delightful manners, great personal charm, and is an accomplished diplomat. He is deeply religious, the essence of generosity, and a martinet on all questions of morality. Like the other members of his family, he has far-reaching views and aspirations for his country. But he has no personal aspirations beyond the Emirate of Mecca, to which he will in all probability, fall heir to the death of his father...
Sherlock Holmes. All stage impersonations and drawings of Sherlock Holmes, his best-known creation, are, says Doyle, very unlike his original idea. The detective had, as imagined by Doyle, "a thin, razor-like face, with a great hawk's-bill of a nose and two small eyes, set close together on either side of it." But the original illustrations, done by the late Sidney Paget, were posed for by the artist's handsome younger brother. Future illustrators have followed Paget. The name of the character was originally planned as "Sherringford Holmes." Dr. Doyle has always felt that...
Alan Dale -"Stout men, stout women, thin men, thin women, ushers, hangers-on- everybody laughed...
GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE-A thin comedy of infelicity made to sit up and take nourishment by the staccato brilliance of Ina Claire...