Word: slenderization
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...Tatler offices subpoenas were issued to Editor John C. Schemm, a sleek, slender gentleman with slicked black hair who wears a smock at work; and Charles Covell of the "Society Service Bureau." ostensibly a publicity service...
...appearance he personifies the Southwestern statesman of a past era. Full-bodied, he has slender legs and phenomenally small feet. His face is round and soft, yet handsome. On his wavy black hair, worn longish, he pulls down an oldfashioned, broad-brimmed black felt hat. His clothes are dark and a trifle tight. Black bow ties cover his collar button. An instinctive politician, he has a ready smile, a friendly chuckle, hosts of one-name friends. He is a Knight of Pythias, Son of the American Revolution, Methodist Episcopalian (South), all in good standing. He smokes cigars, chews...
...Short, slender and serene is Hero Ma. He looks almost exactly like the late, great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin under whom he learned to fight. Like Marshal Chang's mustache, the mustache of General Ma is thin, black and drooping. Like Chang's head. Ma's head is closely shaven, glistens. As small Marshal Chang used to be small General Ma is the terror of a General Staff composed exclusively of tall, strapping, exceedingly respectful Chinese officers. They bent their large bodies over staff maps last week while General Ma in silken house slippers...
...whole nitrate industry was rationalized, reorganized and speeded up last year by the creation of "Cosach," the $375,000,000 nitrate trust, Compania De Salitre De Chile (TIME, July 28, 1930). Last week the most violent political and editorial attacks on Cosach were hurled up & down the length of slender Chile...
Author. Henry Fowles Pringle, 34, was born in New York City, graduated by Cornell in 1919. Slender, dark, thoughtful, sucking a thin-stemmed pipe, he reported for New York papers (Sun, Globe, World), steeped himself in New York politics, contributed to magazines. In 1929 for a year he was acting managing editor of Outlook, is still an associate editor. His other books: Alfred E. Smith : A Critical Study (1927), Big Frogs (1928), Industrial Explorers (1928). A relentless researcher, he has fleshed out the earlier Roosevelt admirably but his penchant for politics has somewhat blurred the man in the White House...