Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...gift of $500,000, the committee's total passed $4,000,000. This sum was what made it possible for little knots of men to be painting Central Park benches, digging sewers in The Bronx, performing clerical work in city hospitals, pitching manure on Park Avenue's thin central strip of grass. Total thus employed: 17,300. ¶ New Orleans jobless began hawking Louisiana oranges on the streets. Manhattan's unemployed fruit vendors sold tangerines two-for-5?. In Elizabeth...
...marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough was a sensation of the decade). She had a wizened little father by the name of Mr. Pipp, who became Artist Gibson's most successful character. She had a number of suitors who were either too fat or too thin, wore reefers with enormous pearl buttons, and killed chin-bearded farmers' chickens by driving their Stevens-Duryeas recklessly on country roads...
...thin, weary bird fluttered into the pigeon cote at Fort Monmouth, N. J. last week. The evening before it had been released with another bird from S. S. Leviathan, 100 mi. at sea. It had flown for nine hours to make the first long-distance pigeon flight over water. Its trainer, Thomas Ross, U. S. Army pigeon expert (TIME, Aug. 16), was so proud when he heard of its successful return that he christened it DO-X. The other pigeon was missing. DO-X lost six and one-half ounces on its journey-one-third of its normal weight. Pigeon...
...thin little story of Smiles has to do with a War orphan who is discovered and cared for by three comics and a tenor. When she grows up the orphan turns out to be Miss Miller who is universally loved and cherished. She avoids marrying a rich young man (Fred Astaire), weds the tenor (Paul Gregory). Most risible part of the program is supplied by the Astaires when they cavort in front of a smalltown band. And at one point Eddie Foy Jr., tipsy in Paris, can be heard singing a few bars of a song with lyrics by Ring...
Last week's concert again suggested that lonely individuals make the greatest music. The Orchestra played the Bach-Beethoven-Brahms program as if completely bewitched by the slight, grey-haired figure, swaying constantly, sometimes singing along in a thin, croaking voice. The smart audience was also hypnotized into perfect behavior. It arrived punctually, never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire...