Word: slenderization
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That was 50 years ago. When she arrived in Zakopane, Modjeska met Ignace Jan Paderewski, a slender, golden-haired youth who had begun to doubt whether he could ever achieve a concert career. Modjeska helped him with money, made him give a concert in Cracow at which she recited. Some years later Baroness Helena became Paderewski's wife. Fortnight ago she died in Switzerland (TIME, Jan. 29). Last week appeared the first important biography to tell how Paderewski, encouraged by both the Helenas, became the great pianist and patriot he is today...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. First was stocky, mournful-looking Bun Cook, who superstitiously insists on touching the ice before his teammates. Behind him glided his pugnacious Brother Bill, team captain, with whom he owns a big wheat farm in Saskatchewan, big, bald, grinning Ivan Wilfred ("Ching") Johnson, slender Frank Boucher, and a youngster named Murray Murdoch. With a few other teammates they made up the New York Rangers. They played that night against the Montreal Maroons...
...List, an Austrian who twelve years ago was singing in Manhattan cinemansions. Basso List's deep, dark voice was admirably suited to the beards he wore as the Landgrave in Tannhaüser, as Hunding in Walküre. But big, forceful bassos are much more common than slender, graceful tenors...
...platform before the Philadelphia Lecture Assembly strode slender, freckle-faced Eva Le Gallienne of Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre and strapping, hollow-eyed Ethel Barrymore. Invited to address the Assembly earlier in the week, Miss Le Gallienne failed to appear, was now making amends by speaking gratis. Several hundred Philadelphia socialite women, including Mrs. Upton Favorite, Mrs. Trenchard Emlen Newbold and Mrs. Arthur B. Waters, the Assembly's director, who had scolded her roundly and threatened to sue, appeared to hear her apologize. But Miss Le Gallienne had no apology to make. She rapped...
...pale reddish yellow crossed with diamond-shaped black patches on the back. It may be the progenitor of the whole pit viper family, of which it is the longest. The group includes rattlesnake, moccasin, copperhead, fer-de-lance. On the end of the bushmaster's tail is a slender horn, possibly a vestigial set of rattles. Like the rest of the family, it has a deep pit on either side of its big, blunt snout. It is the only member which lays eggs, usually nesting in deserted armadillo holes. It grows up to 12 ft. long. Its enormously developed...