Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...could not live without TIME, and of course your book reviews are usually done with care, and of course, there is sure to be difference of opinion. But I can not refrain from pointing out to you that your reviewer thinks that Louis Bromfield's "style is thin and without distinction...
...with "Son of the Sun." Ruth Altman, the latest find of Producer Hammerstein, a luscious-looking lady who sings well but whose speaking voice is throaty to the point of unintelligibility, is fairly satisfactory as the ill-starred princess. The vaudeville team of Jans & Whalen capers through some very thin comedy material, representing the inevitable U. S. Marines. Most hummable waltz: "Magic Spell of Love...
...money if the Aldermen could not legally do so. New York police mailed to colleagues all over the world 10,000 circulars, like those advertising criminals wanted, with Judge Crater's photograph and description prominently displayed: "Age, 41 years; height, 6 feet; weight, 185 pounds; mixed grey hair . . . thin at top, parted in middle, 'slicked' down; . . . brown eyes; false teeth ... tip of right index finger somewhat mutilated." Few days later Mrs. Crater received a letter: "Your husband is alive and safe. . . . We believe there is something wrong with his head. ... I beg to inform you that unless...
...mounted the rostrum "Uncle Arthur" looked strangely thin. No wonder. He had just lost a "stone" (14 lb.). Under doctors' orders he and Mrs. Henderson spent most of August gulping down the slimming waters of a Welsh spa (Llandrindod Wells), from which they hastened via London to Geneva. In pulpit tones, measured, slow and once or twice ringingly fervent, Mr. Henderson made last week the speech of his life, successfully courted fame by demanding that the League act to achieve Disarmament, cease piddling about "Security," the Frenchified nebulosity upon which M. Briand is trying to erect his famed "United...
...this thin thread of realism Rosamond Lehmann has strung pearls...