Word: slenderizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slender, faun-faced Dancer Weidman, 46, is the son of a Lincoln, Neb. fireman. He joined Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis famed Denishawn group in 1920. On a tour of the Orient with them, it suddenly came over him how absurd it was for a group of Americans to perform classic Oriental dances for the Orientals. "I said to myself, 'Why am I here trying to do their dances. . . . They must wonder how we dance ourselves. How do we?' " In 1929 he teamed up with another Denishawn star, Doris Humphrey, and set out to supply an answer...
...Tall, slender, and unmistakably English, 32-year-old Monica Dickens has the feminine fragility of her great-grandfather's heroines, but she is considerably stronger-minded. To get material for her first book, One Pair of Hands, she astonished her conservative, upper-middle-class family by becoming a cook. When the war came, she switched to nursing, found time to write another book, One Pair of Feet, and then spent a year working in a munitions factory...
...such fast maneuvering, slender, affable Ferd Owen, 58, has become the biggest mule and horse trader in the U.S. His natty suits, hickory cane, and diamond stickpin (shaped like a mule's head) belie his origin as the fifth of nine sons of a poor Missouri farmer. Ferd went to school for only six months. At 15, he went into business for himself as a "road trader," driving all over the Midwest in a covered wagon and swapping animals with farmers along the road. That sharpened his trader's eye; now he can tell an animal...
...slender, decorous man with old-world manners, Dr. Morrison wears gold-rimmed glasses that do not quite hide the fire in his eyes. Even in his youth, he never lacked for words. Like his father, he became a minister of the Disciples of Christ, a denomination originally formed by Presbyterians who wanted less sectarianism and more church unity. Once in his preaching career Dr. Morrison, in the pulpit of a church he was visiting, discovered a clock with a warning sign: "Preach not over 30 minutes." Dr. Morrison preached right on past the deadline...
...members, found itself in a precarious spot. The labor bill now pending in Congress denies foremen the protection of the Wagner Act (in effect repealing the Supreme Court decision of March 10 which put them under it). The only other club against management-a strike-had proved a slender reed. Furthermore, the union's greatest source of power, prestige and funds had been its big contract...