Word: thins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thin-skinned Lawyer Scott, able Catholic layman, good friend of Herbert Hoover, be less umbrageous. No insult to Catholics was intended by a good old English term...
...blustery, headline-hunter when he came out of Orange County, Texas, Chairman Dies is still hunting news space ("The only thing that counts in these investigations is what gets in the papers"). But last week he revealed an understanding that Reds and Nazis do not just grow out of thin air. Said he, projecting an ambitious new line of inquiry. "I want to give the nation a graphic picture of the deplorable conditions that breed Communism and Fascism...
Russia grabbed the proffered deuce. Heavy-featured, impassive Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin promised thin-featured, intense U. S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt full information as soon as it was available. Seldom has a simple request produced such odd results. The U. S. was absolved from taking a stand until the promise was kept. Russia announced that the German prize crew had been interned. That would imply that the ship would be released to its U. S. crew. Ambassador Steinhardt pressed for more information. Russia announced that the German crew had been released. That would suggest that the ship...
...goal line for a third. Then, in the first few minutes of the third quarter -by this time looking as monstrous to the Blue Boys as Willie Heston had looked to the West Virginia footballers of 1904-Terrible Tommy got loose and dashed 57 yards, with tacklers diving into thin air after him, for his third touchdown...
...magician pulls a white rabbit out of a silk hat, so the Fine Arts Theatre seems to pull consistently entertaining pictures out of thin air. "Mill on the Floss" is undoubtedly one of the funniest pictures of the year. It is all the funnier because it sets out to be a soul-searing tragedy of Sophocletian dimensions...