Word: angular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...different from President Hart and the other Caribbean-ruling Bostonians is United Fruit's de facto head, Sam Zemurray. He is thin, bony, angular, with black domineering eyes and a hawk nose. Tropical-sun-tanned, he might be a Spaniard. He speaks English with a slight accent except when he is cursing, speaks Spanish with no accent at all. He is quiet in public, precisely dressed, has never been interviewed and likes to be left alone. His name appears neither in Who's Who nor in the New Orleans Social Register. His daughter Doris two years ago married...
...Angular Enid Wilson won her first two matches smoothly, moved into the quarterfinals. Her next opponent was Charlotte Glutting, a 22-year-old from South Orange, N. J. who has played tournament golf only two years, never before in a national championship. It looked easy. Playing along quietly, Enid Wilson was two up at the turn. By the 13th hole, however, Miss Glutting's splendid iron shots had put her one up. At the 14th she holed a chip shot for a half. And at the 18th came a curious thing. Miss Wilson, still one down, had an easy chip...
...Hadley's device for measuring angular distances was really an octant, employing a graduated arc of one-eighth of a circle. Capt. Campbell enlarged it to one-sixth in 1757 to use it for navigation purposes...
...Independents' liberality to exhibit political propaganda. Critics noted that the founders of modernism are already sufficiently venerable to have direct copyists. Director Warren Wheelock produced a solid canvas of "Men Working'' in precisely the mood and manner of rotund Diego Rivera. Artist Dmitry Wiener exhibited an angular confection entitled "Exotique" (see cuts) that only lacked Pablo Picasso's acute sense of color to be exactly like the great Spanish experimenter's latest abstractions. Depression caused one novelty in this year's show. Artists loudly announced that this year they would barter their pictures...
...takes his family twice a week. Paul Bowling, an official in Star Bucket & Pump Co., keeps a five-seat box for the members of his family and has not missed a game for five years. They, even more than Gabby Street, a man of 49, with a homely, angular face, who sits quietly in the dugout, not waving his score card like Connie Mack nor jumping up to argue with the umpires like McGraw, are part of a thoroughly indigenous U. S. scene, part of the perspiring pattern of summer days in St. Louis...