Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Upright Servant. But once he had seated himself, he assumed an air of bluff unconcern. He got out a prepared statement, fitted on a pair of thick-rimmed glasses, shot his cuffs, and, in eight minutes of manly recitation, denied that he had ever been anything but an upright and proper public servant...
...Young (28), handsome Piotr Pirogov quickly found a literary agent, arranged to give lectures, write articles and turn out a book. But Barsov was at a loss. Older than his navigator and outranking him, he seemed to resent his pal's success. An inarticulate, heavy-boned man with thick-knuckled peasant hands, Barsov found himself all but ignored. In his diary he noted: "As always, all-knowing and haughty to the point of stupidity, [Pirogov] insulted me repeatedly . . . Today's quarrel with Pirogov made clear my dependency upon...
...feel puny," he adds, measuring off a half-inch between his thick thumb and forefinger, "very puny...
...summer thick-thighed youngsters and greying masters of modern dance had been hard at work in their various sylvan woodsheds, chipping and chopping at works both new & old. Last week, some of the chips flew into public view...
...Elizabeth Taylor is a great beauty. She is a perfect type of the Black Irish. She has heavy black hair and brows that are also black and thick, but not a whit too thick to frame her large, luxuriantly lashed blue eyes, which darken into violet in the least shadow. Her complexion has been described by an ecstatic publicity man as "a bowl of cream with a rose floating in it." Cameramen have paid her Hollywood's ultimate compliment to beauty: "She doesn't have a bad angle...