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Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week decided to take complete command of the Chicago convention which he confidently expects to nominate him for the Presidency a fortnight hence. His decision promptly embroiled his party in fresh squabbling and brought down upon his thin-thatched head a charge of bad faith...
Satirist Grosz had opinions last week about the U. S. face (he had seen only Manhattan faces). He analyzed it as typically pale, thin and long, notably Puritan with heavy lines of violence beside the mouth, somehow suggesting the Amerindian...
...Louis Israel Dublin of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. finds that thin men are more inclined to suicide than normally built men, fat men more than thin ones...
...scientific" line somewhere. As reported in the New York World, in 1908, a party of detectives detailed to investigate a series of petty robberies in Pittsburgh, saw, early in the morning of July 26, a big black dog sauntering by. "Good morning!" said the dog. "He disappeared in a thin, greenish vapor." Author Fort draws the line at that...
...Maharo, she undertook a lecture at a girls' school near Bristol. She told her story haltingly, miserably. Most of the girls sat back and drowsed at the ''mish's" speech; some ate candy; one, a hockey player named Barbara Gastell, paid attention. She knew the thin little old lady had "guts...