Word: thins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon Adolf finds himself wandering in a garden-"Berchtesgarden, you know"-and comes on a mushroom which turns out to be a small atlas globe with a tall, thin, umbrella-bearing caterpillar on it. Adolf has an uncomfortable suspicion. He becomes excited, and begins to shout about negotiations with "Those dirty Jewish Eskimos." To quiet him, the caterpillar suggests a poem...
...thin and long...
Filling the stage with the Day family, unctuous rectors, unwelcome relatives, tearful and transient servant girls, and forwarding the story with a protracted conspiracy to get Father baptized, Life with Father bowls pleasantly along. The first two acts are rather upsy-downsy, with some of the humor forced and thin, but the last act turns hilarious, with Father finally departing for the font in a shower of laughter...
...meet a voluptuous young woman named Magda Lupescu. Daughter of a small shopkeeper, divorced wife of an Army lieutenant, she also happened to be half-Jewish in a country stridently antiSemitic. Notwithstanding, Carol fell for "Bibi"-as he called the titian-haired Magda-and for 16 years, through thick & thin, on and off the throne, in exile or at home, he was to stick...
After 17 years in Paris, Walter Merguson speaks fluent French, lives with his mother in a Montmartre house which he owns. Thin, tall, well-mannered, he has seen most of Europe, before the war had visited both the Westwall and the Maginot Line. Last month Newsman Merguson scored a beat on the entire press of the U. S. with a story of the mobilization of French colonial troops. His cable to the Courier revealed that France was raising a black army of 2,000,000 soldiers, 500,000 laborers. Including the Senegalese fighters who were famed for valor...