Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Lord Willingdon is acceptable to the non-partisan mass of the British public because of his obvious fitness for the job. Long, lean, after his able service through the War as Governor of Bombay (Bombay was headquarters for the ill-fated British Mesopotamia expedition) he was appointed Governor of Madras. British papers announced that it was "a foregone conclusion" that he would be next Viceroy of India. Something went wrong, Lord Reading, a fellow-Liberal, got the job. In 1926 Lord Willingdon was made Governor General of Canada. Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas, his eldest son, served in the Coldstreams...
Most of the time the tousle-headed man laughed also. But occasionally his eyes looked frightened, his left hand opened and shut nervously. Then the quiet woman would lean toward him, pat his hand. She, Frau Elsa Einstein Einstein, knew that the world must continue making its legend about this small man, her double cousin to whom she has been married for 14 years.∙ She knows that popular imagination makes of him a hero who works in a solitary study mixing mathematical equations to get Truth as old-time alchemists mixed base metals to obtain Gold. She also knows...
When Composer Hamilton Forrest first went to see Mary Garden he was a lean, wild-eyed youth who, in order to continue his musical studies, had been working as office boy in Mr. Insull's Commonwealth Edison Co. He showed Miss Garden an opera the libretto of which she, theatrer wise, pronounced impossible. But she recognized instantly Forrest's genius for music, told him to find another libretto, a lovestory, and try again. Camille came to his mind because he knew of a similar tragedy which involved two students in a Chicago shorthand school. "But Camille," Mary Garden...
Other prophets heard during the week were bullish. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., lean president of General Motors Corp. said: "I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year." Iron Age (75 years old last week) reported a "change of sentiment in the steel industry." The first quarter of 1931 was seen as the likely end of the decline in business by Harvard Economic Society...
Because grim, humorless Senator William Henry ("Mac") McMaster, insurgent Republican up for reelection, loves the Hoover Administration no more than does lean-faced, witty Governor William John Bulow, his Democratic senatorial opponent, South Dakota this year is a political battlefield practically barren of national issues. However Nominee Bulow's blunt comedy-Will Rogers once called him "funnier than I am"-has saved their campaign from stagnation. Last week he declared: "They ain't any great issues out here, I guess. Mac's got a job and I want it." Nominee Bulow is famed for his tobacco chewing...