Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instincts offstage than on. Actress West seldom drinks, smokes denicotinized cigarets. Until she reached Hollywood, she improvised her plays in rehearsal from rough notes; her ambition as a playwright was to win the Pulitzer Prize. Padded in most of her pictures. Mae West's real dimensions are: height 5 ft. 5 in., weight 120 lb., waist 26 in., hips 36 in., bust 36 in. She likes diamonds, rare beefsteaks, racehorses, of which she recently acquired a stable of three. Her next picture for Paramount will...
...Society twelve better by decreeing a national monthly fast day, the household savings of which are to feed the local starving Armenians, we were even more struck by the incongruity of a message sent down by the Soviet ballooners to their listening fans on the ground. Having attained the height of 11.8 miles above the earth, they radioed: "We are doing well and send our best wishes." For a very happy Stratostat Year? CASTOR...
...York Life Insurance Co. To him then came an opportunity for advancement. He was offered the presidency of the State Bank (Chicago's leading Scandinavian bank) previously headed by the late Ralph Van Vechten. Only a short time had Mr. Head been installed when, at the height of 1929's boom, State...
...clay, he should be a member of next year's Davis Cup team, think Lott and Vines. Parker's father, Paul Pajowski, is dead. His mother entrusts him to the care of famed Tennis Coach Mercer Beasley, who fervently hopes he will get beyond his present height of 5 ft. 9½in. Beasley's greeting to Parker when he returned from six weeks abroad to coach the Davis Cup team: "What's the matter? You haven't grown...
Well over six feet in height and built to be a wrestler. Professor Merriman lectures in a deep booming voice which, at crucial moments, rises to a preposterously high pitch. The universal nickname, "Frisky", which ranks with "Copey" and "Kitty" among Harvard's factious sobriquets, has clung to him since his college days, did not spring, as so many think, from his animated platform manner. Anathema to him are hats, newspapers, or sleeping students in the New Lecture Hall just before he begins his lecture. He is a strong Anglophile, swallows his ever present pipe half way down his threat...