Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...produce, among other useful oddities, the spineless cactus, once a nuisance, now a fodder; fat, perennial rhubarb out of a skinny annual; plums with thick skins that endure the rigors of shipping and without pits, which eliminates an annoyance in eating; the flaming crimson poppy from a wan yellow bloom; the popular Shasta daisy...
...Middlesex Hospital's official blood-supply man. Is it an old dodderer from whose veins the tingle of life has ebbed? A young slip of a girl, anaemic, wan, ghosty-eyed? Frederick George Lee bares his flesh, lets his stout heart pump good red blood into the sufferer's frame and for his office receives a goodly fee. In the past three years he has done that 24 times...
...amazed to see a sort of, could it be, well nervousness in the champion's play. No, merely caution. But as the first set progressed they began to have fears. Where was the resistless speed? Where the champion's iron nerves? Even that poker face was wan now, as Miss McKane, playing as if the sub-subconscious conviction of victory, took the first set, 6-3. Twenty-four minutes later the match was over. Miss Wills, in the greatest tennis exhibition of her life, ran out a love set, allowed only two games in the third. When...
...school along lime-bordered paths past the back-hedges of the burghers of Juvissy, France, little Gabrielle Renaudot, a spindling girl with legs like matches, hempen ringlets and immense brown eyes peering from the wan mask of her face, would pause, with furtive admiration, to watch the famed astronomer meditating in his kitchen-garden. Her mother, Maria Latini, the original of Henri Regnault's famed painting, Salome, was a friend of Flammarion's. When she died, little Gabrielle went to the great man for advice and counsel. Was she fond of Science ? That was what he wanted...
...Chicago, one John Donahue, broker, was playing bridge. He dealt himself a hand and was casually arranging the cards when suddenly the blood rushed to his face, then drained away; his wan lips twitched. "Beg pardon?" asked the opponent on his left, one Neutz, who had been waiting for Broker Donahue's bid. "One diamond," whispered Donahue. "Three spades," said Neutz. "Four diamonds," said Donahue, "five . . . six . . . seven." But Neutz, holding ace, king, queen, jack and four low spades, and supported by his partner, went up to seven spades, began to play them. On every trick Donahue discarded...