Word: slenderization
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...Schmitz organized a holding company in Basle, Switzerland, nearly a year ago, allowed dye trust stockholders to exchange their German shares, payable in marks, against Swiss shares, payable in francs. The reformed Schmitz's emergency measures were sufficiently successful last week for the Reichsbank to announce that its slender gold coverage had increased...
...shouted a short, slender, red-headed young Irishman named Frank Murphy last September as he campaigned to be Mayor of Detroit. Times were hard but he would bring practical relief. Many good Detroit citizens were surprised when "Dew & Sunshine" Murphy was elected Mayor but many, many more were downright astonished when he, unlike most politicians, pitched in vigorously to execute his campaign promises...
Married. Rudy Vallée, 29, redheaded, crooning orchestra leader; and Fay Webb, 23, slender, beauteous, brunette daughter of Chief of Police Clarence Webb of Santa Monica, Calif.; secretly; in West Orange, N. J. In 1928 Crooner Vallée was married for three weeks to a Mrs. Leonie Cauchois McCoy. He took Mrs. Vallee No. 2 to live in a six-room apartment at No. 55 Central Park West, Manhattan. Two days after the wedding they gave a press reception. Excerpts...
...disrupted the brothels in the valleys and smashed the gambling dens on the hills. He brought the regenerate to God, and now with a congregation of 7,886 and with 27 branch Sunday Schools has the largest Presbyterian Church in the world on his hands. He is a tall, slender, white-haired Lion of Judah, 63. He habitually wears a frock coat and, like the late William Jennings Bryan whom he much resembles in dogmatic religious zeal, he affects a broad-brimmed slouch...
...pairs of daughters and mothers who attended Smith, Vassar, Wellesley and Mt. Holyoke Colleges show a similar trend. The girls are some seven pounds heavier, about one inch taller than were their mothers at the same age. They are larger in every way but one: their hips are more slender...