Word: slenderizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heat, Sin and Revival. Strange Fruit tells of Nonnie Anderson, a tall, slender, black-eyed, gentle Negro girl who has been in love with Tracy Deen, the son of Maxwell's doctor, since she was six years old. Now, when he is home from the war, with his college career broken off, with his father urging him to become a doctor and his mother after him to join the church, their love affair has grown into a deeper companionship. He also likes to talk to her. Strange Fruit begins (and reaches its most moving passages) with Nonnie...
Common Sense was, in a sense, celebrating the fact that it was no longer being supported in part by the Chicago Tribune's lush dividends. The Colonel's niece had sold her last six shares of Tribune stock to Colonel McCormick (for about $210,000). Says slender, 31-year-old Mrs. Katrina McCormick Barnes: "I've always hated Uncle Bertie...
...historic coincidence, the Republican Senate leadership fell open the same week as the Democratic. Death came to Charles Linza McNary, 69, the slender, urbane Oregonian who adroitly steered his Party's Senate minority through the grueling first eleven years of the New Deal...
...personal security of slender, ascetic Adolfo Lanus, La Prensa's editorial writer, was in doubt. He was reported under arrest. No Argentine regime had yet dared to ban La Prensa, but this was a challenge direct...
...Forest. A little fleet of cars took the party ten miles out the Vitebsk road to Goat Hill, overlooking the Dnieper. A light snow was falling on the slender, leaning birches, the bare oaks, the tall evergreens and the huge mounds of frozen sand with the black boots sticking out. Kathy and her companions stumbled over the rough ground, past pits the size of tennis courts, to where Dr. Victor Prozorovsky, senior medical expert of the Atrocities Commission, stood on a freshly turned heap of red sand. He was directing Red Army men as they hacked out frozen, mildewed Polish...