Word: thins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room farm home perched on a hill near Creswell, Ore. There sat Holt, 52, a thickset man with a ragged mustache and shaggy eyebrows, and his wife Bertha, 53, her unrouged face a picture of contentment. Around the couple cuddled eight button-eyed children, aged 3 to 5. Their thin voices mingled with the Holts' as they sang...
...resistance. The specimen was listed in the brain registry of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy (which Dr. Perlstein helped to found in 1949) and sent on to Pathologist Herman Josephy at Chicago State Hospital. Dr. Josephy may take as long as three months, slicing up to 200 paper-thin sections from the brain, mounting and photographing them, before reporting back to Perlstein on where and how the brain was damaged...
Owen Wister recalls, however, that a song written for the 1879 Dickey show referred to Roosevelt as "awful smart, with waxed mustache and hair in curls." Indeed, the Roosevelt of his college days looked nothing like the portly president of the 1900's. He was thin-faced and anemic, and had not yet developed the much-caricatured prominent teeth and jaw of his later years. He also wore reddish whiskers, carefully nurtured, which caused amusement in the Yard...
...turned his wide back on the moderns. "I was just coming out of a cubist show," he said later, "when a fruit vendor passed in front of me in the sunshine, pushing a little wagon full of peaches. The sight was so much more beautiful than all those dry, thin abstractions inside the gallery. It made me want to paint the richness we can see and feel." He went to Italy, where the Renaissance had spread its richness across acres of church and palace walls. Inspired by Giotto, Uccello and Andrea del Castagno, he resolved to paint, as they...
...like a civil war" for the U.S. (he later denied it all), sang for top Germans during the war ("What would you have done?"). In a triumphant 1955 return to the U.S. (at Carnegie Hall), he flashed moments of his oldtime operatic color, but more often his voice was thin, unsteady and unmistakably 65 years...