Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alien Property Custodian, spent a year in Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Lobbyist Taylor saw overseas service, has four battle clasps with a silver star citation. His greatest feat was putting through the first Bonus bill in 1924. He carries a cane, wears a stubbly blond mustache, has an eye that pierces the boldest Congressman. His salary is $6,000; he earns it and more. His boast is that one word from him to Legion headquarters and a deluge of hundreds of thousands of letters and telegrams will pour in on a balky Congress. He picks hostile...
...Lucien Koch, 24, who had been brought up on an Oregon farm, worked his way through high school as a printer's devil, studied at Commonwealth from 1924 to 1929. Director Koch studied economics at the University of Wisconsin, became an instructor in Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College. Blond, square-faced, heavyset, he is foreman of the college carpentry crew. He likes to shout labor speeches, sing labor songs, play Beethoven on Commonwealth's portable phonograph. Last spring Director Koch took four commoners to Kentucky's Harlan and Bell Counties to distribute food & clothing, make speeches on the Bill...
...long-shanked German burgher with thinning blond hair, blue eyes red-rimmed by fatigue, lounged in Montreal's Mount Royal Hotel one evening last week, toying dully with a glass of beer. He wished the newsmen ranged about him would quit trying to make him a hero. He wished they would not refer to his arrival that day by flying boat from Germany as a "transatlantic flight." He wished they would not ask him lor the101st time if the route via Iceland and Greenland, which he had surveyed thrice in three years, were "feasible." Above all he wished they would...
There is nothing long and virginal about Emil Ganso. He is short and 40, mustached, a great talker, a feverish cigaret-smoker, with thinning blond hair uncombed, big feet, unpressed suit, unpolished shoes. He lives at Woodstock, N. Y., where he is socially prominent, sometimes bakes a loaf of bread...
Long (6 ft., 1¾ in.), thin (156 lb.), blond, with horned-rim glasses, Ben Eastman lacks the appearance of a champion runner. He looked even less like one the day he won the quarter-mile in a class track meet when he was a Stanford freshman. He ran in sneakers. But his time was 51 sec. Stanford's seasoned track coach, Robert Lyman ("Dink") Templeton, was so much impressed that he took Eastman in hand, had him go away for the summer to put on weight. Last year, running in the intercollegiates for the first time, Eastman lost...