Word: angular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before Charles Francis Brush, Cleveland inventor of arc lights and storage batteries, died in 1929, he gave $500,000 for a Brush Foundation to improve the human race and regulate its population. Dr. Todd, a tall, angular Yorkshireman whose fondest possession is an original photograph of Charles Darwin, took charge of the Brush Foundation. His first goal, and the purpose of his meticulous measurements of Cleveland children, is to find exactly how a human being grows from childhood to adulthood. When he learns what happens to the body (including brain), he expects to find out precisely how the mind...
Kohana proved serious indeed. She went around barefoot in a succession of trailing costumes. Occasionally she had an angular outburst. More often she just undulated...
...Orpheus fountain, water will spurt up as high as the knees of Orpheus. Dripping lines of water from the teeth of Cerberus will harmonize perpendicularly with the legs of the figure. Human torsos representing shades in Hades have been carved into parts of the angular unsymmetrical base. When the fountain works they, like the dead, will seem to float in the mists of another world...
...Cradle Song, Mrs. Elvsted in Hedda Gabler, Wendy in Peter Pen, Anya in The Cherry Orchard or 30 other rôles. Somewhat startled by sudden recognition, Cinemactress Hutchinson was treated to a thorough series of camera tests designed to find out the most effective means of photographing her angular, expressive face. Meanwhile Hollywood gossip writers pigeonholed information to use in case the tests turned out as well as Warner Brothers hoped: Josephine Hutchinson, 25, is divorced from a grandson of Inventor Graham Bell. She weighs 103, lives in Manhattan, likes riding, won a scholarship in an acting school...
Appearance: Henry: tall, angular, grey-haired. William: strikingly similar...