Word: thins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mansley, in his thin-soled brown French shoes, inspected bread rings going at fifty cents apiece (ten of those little red coupons), gazed stolidly at the immobile Dutch windmill and the Blarney Castle, and meditated briefly upon an Indian almond-candy called barfi...
...last class day for President Lowell, often described as the "ablest confetti man in the Yard." The "lasting impression" of one participant was that of Lowell, "his hat in his hand, confetti in his thin, gray hair, watching the merry makers leave the stadium. Finally, as if reluctant to leave himself, he turned and followed the crowd out of the giant athletic field...
However, Mr. Kelley has tried very few of the sight gags that are needed to make up for the paucity of jokes in the script, and nobody in his cast can create laughs out of thin air. John Wolfson is scarcely what Gogol had in mind for the chief conniver, but his cold authority works very well instead of the greasy glibness the author intended. Mr. Wolfson knows how to command a stage, and his performance is one of the evening's best. As the other gambler, Ronald Coralian does a straight part well...
...wrong, you understand," he remarked from the door. "This business is not all play. We've got a job to do--teach the people, promulgate the propaganda, foster good will. The world treads a tight-rope wire, and the blood of the body politic is watered with thin-skimmed and anemic apathy. We are the hypodermic needle...
...specialist it is too late to do more than prolong his eyesight for a few years, but back home in the town concert hall it is still early enough for the boy to find an exciting new sense of vocation. A violin note spins out over the hushed audience, "thin and glittering like a gold thread in sunlight . . . the echo felt like a kind of weeping in one's chest. A weeping that could not be wept." At novel's end, with a profound sense of release shared by boy and reader alike, the boy is ready...