Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile industry. This year the Ford Building dwarfs its competitors' exhibits, cost $,.000,000, included the world's largest photomural (600 ft. by 20 ft.), an outdoor show called "Roadways of the World," performances by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra four hours a day for twelve weeks. Lean, gaunt Henry Ford was on hand in shirtsleeves the opening day to whip his spectacle into working order. He noticed a 10-year-old peering at the mechanical exhibits, volunteered to conduct him and other moppets through the place. "Mr. Ford," interrupted an officious secretary, "you're not going...
...York, all hands will be called on the quarter-deck of the Fleet's flagship, the band will be paraded, high officers will turn out in their gold braid and cocked hats. Admiral Sellers will step forward, read an order appointing him commandant at Annapolis. Then lean, bearded Joseph Mason Reeves will read an order making him master of all U. S. warships. "Bull"' Reeves has been an outstanding naval figure since that autumn afternoon in 1894 when, injured, he saved the day for Annapolis on the football field, spurred the Midshipmen to victory over Army...
...tall, lean minister sat in a Manhattan church one night last week, weeping gently into a handkerchief and bowing his bald head over a bouquet of yellow roses. What moved Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner to tears was the presence of 1,200 pious people in his Broadway Temple (Methodist) to celebrate the beginning of the 25th year of his work in the Manhattan corner of the Lord's vineyard. For three and one-half hours they listened to songs and praiseful speeches by churchmen, municipal officials, businessmen, Kiwanians. Said New York's District Attorney William C. Dodge...
...publishing field. Founder Robert A. Bould began having fun with the sedate Wall Street Journal and its advertisers in 1919 but after he was drowned in Long Island Sound in 1926 publication lapsed for five years. In 1931 the Bawl Street Journal was resurrected by John A. Straley, lean, sardonic promotion manager for Corporate Equities, Inc. A writer of fiction on the side, Editor Straley started offering prizes which brought in contributions from all over the U. S. This year more than 10,000 copies were sold at 50? each. Profits go toward defraying the Bond Club's heavy...
Irving Berlin is proud of having set a record in the theatre's lean time, proud of having written a fast, popular show at 46, when most songwriters' careers are over. But deep in his heart he has a warmer feeling for the first Music Box Revue ("Say It With Music"). And never has he been so proud as when in 1910 he was able to buy his mother a hard shiny set of parlor furniture with the royalties from "My Wife's Gone to the Country" and "Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon...