Word: thins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...munificent donor whose desire for anonymity carried him so far as to sign a fictitious name to his checks caused some worry and disappointment at Phillips Brooks House recently when his $5000 Christmas contribution vanished in thin...
Alice Roosevelt Longworth. "Alice was one of the pioneers in smoking and left a trail of ashes and smoldering disgust through conservative circles. . . . She came and went like a merry flash and skated skillfully over very thin ice. . . . Any day you may see Alice Longworth come into the Senate. . . . Her hat, no matter how becoming, is flung instantly aside. . . . She hasn't much hair, but it is pretty and there is scarcely a gray streak in it. ... Not long after her marriage, I think it was, she was giving a big luncheon party. In the middle of it, someone...
Douglas, Jr., had rather a thin and weakling play on which to test his histrionic sinews; yet, seasoned by a good cast and gloriously spared the sickly meringue of lovemaking, it sufficed...
...cheer, and the pain of a twisted knee is forgotten if that knee helped to push the ball over the enemy's goal line. But what of the second team the black jersies, for whom there is endless drubbing and few cheers, plenty of pains and only a thin official notice...
Party line between Democrats and Republicans have been drawn so exceeding thin that dissatisfaction with one has become the chief lever for hoisting the other into power. And therefore, as Senator Underwood states on another page of this issue, the 1924 elections will doubtless again be decided by the general condition of the country and the general opinion of the present administration. He further deduces that opinion will be unfavorable, that the Democrats will therefore win, and that he will lead the march to Washington...