Word: wanly
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...modest, sometimes wan little book, The Long Wing is unlikely to cause much ruckus in the lending libraries, but it is as able a first novel as the season has shown thus far. Author Elizabeth Fenwick, a slim, soft-spoken girl of 26, was born in St. Louis; her marriage in 1941 to a French instructor at Cornell barely outlasted the war. She now lives alone in a basement apartment near the Cornell campus, writing a second novel of family life. Says she: "Families fascinate me, probably because I've never had any real family life myself...
...work: the last Sunday comic page of Terry and the Pirates he would ever draw. Its frames held deftly drawn figures, caught in the restrained gestures of a farewell. The fadeout was appropriately up-to-the-minute: a transport plane lifting into a sky that was streaked like the wan sunrise outside his studio...
...days in any farm, community would reveal to even a critical British traveler that surprisingly few of the girls or their mamas are pale and wan, with "narrow hips . . . and slender, nonprehensile hands." He would discover in any small town, and perhaps be cheered to learn, that not all of the homes consist of a "spectacled, crushed-looking man" dominated by a starved and sterile-appearing clotheshorse...
...With a wan, understanding smile, the head coach said he was sorry, and wished he had some extras himself. The man nodded sadly, turned, and walked dejectedly in the direction of the Charles River...
According to Dining Hall Director A. Margaret Bowers, quoted in the dispatch, Yale men have taken to a new and particularly troublesome kind of table-hopping. After reading in advance menus posted in the ten colleges, the Hall of Graduate Studies, and even the Divinity School, students wan and emaciated from meagre rations of sundry things on toast are able to augment their diets by guest appearances at eating places other than their own. By downing three dinners in as many halls, they absorb the equivalent of a normal, pre-meat-shortage meal...