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...arrived, in the person of an old-family Chicagoan, Under Secretary of Commerce Wayne Chatfield Taylor - a rich man's son, product of St. Mark's and Yale, onetime investment banker, and by no means a wild-eyed New Dealer. Sewell Avery rose from his chair, his thin lips parting in an amiable smile, and courteously, gravely asked the U.S. Government to step in. The door closed...
...over the food on the bench, eating very much in the manner of a ravenous animal. . . . Now he lifted his head, and Frossia saw a face as flawlessly chiseled as any she had ever imagined, skin and muscle clothing perfect bone work of chin, cheek and forehead. The straight thin nose, the large sherry-colored eyes ... all suggested breeding. Yet the mouth hung loosely, the eyes were twin pools of despair, and now that they were looking at her, something like a sneer crept into them...
Said Spokesman Kitagawa sadly: "When we appear on the street we walk like thin men, trying to be inconspicuous...
...walls hung eight profiles of hawk-faced Sherlock Holmes, a curved pipe pendent from his thin lips and a deerstalker cap pushed down on his dolichocephalic skull. Five orange pips lay on one table. On another stood a porcelain Hound of the Baskervilles. The guests raised their glasses, drank to Holmesian characters and places-"To THE Woman," "To Mrs. Hudson," "To Mycroft." Along with place cards, women guests found Holmesian cryptograms-a single red rose and a mysterious note: "Dear Miss -, See you at 2216. Sincerely, John H. Watson." In one corner Author Christopher Morley, in a hunting cap, peered...
Hazlitt made the traditional switch from unsuccessful artist to art critic. Soon a host of outstanding artists were plucking his neat barbs from their thin skins...