Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Katharine Cornell is of more than average height. Her broad, mobile face is ruled off at the bottom quarter by a large, loose mouth which can be as horrible as a conventionalized Grecian mask or can twist up into one of the most appealing smiles on the U. S. boards. Her eyes are as heavy-lidded as Tallulah Bankhead's. not from cinematographic languor but from a ceaseless brooding contemplation. She now wears her dark, slightly wavy hair shoulder length and behind her ears. Her friends call her "Kit." She is precious in the care of her voice, does...
About five years ago, at the height of the Currier & Ives craze, knowing dealers began buying up Rogers groups wherever they could find them. What the Lotos Club had to show last week were not the flyspecked, chocolate colored plaster casts of the average collection but the heavy bronze originals from which these casts were made, property of Miss Katherine Rogers, the sculptor's daughter...
...general utility purposes, bought a second $3,500 Lincoln near the close of the year. Explained Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown: "When I looked at the [first] car, I found it was, too small for practicable use on formal occasions. I found that a man of my height, and I am below the average, could not wear a top hat and sit in this car." House and Senate obligingly approved the Postmaster General's purchase of a topper-fitting automobile. In New York, Wilfred John Funk, light-versifying president of Funk & Wagnalls Co. (publishing, Literary Digest), announced his list...
...Freehold, N. J., Joseph J. Schwark, new Democratic warden, reported to Harold Height, new Democratic sheriff, on disconcerting conditions in the Monmouth County jail. Of the 90 prisoners, 35 had electric cookers, sauce pans, broilers, cutlery & napery in their cells. They all entertained guests at any hour of day or night, kept late hours, gave parties at whim. Prisoners George Parker, Elijah Thompson, John Leddy, Charles High, John Walling were absent. (Later the night keeper found Parker who "when we counted them in the cells, was in the kitchen. When we counted them in the kitchen, Parker...
...hired plane. He brought his harp and played on the way up. Charles MacArthur, who wrote The Front Page and married Helen Hayes, two remarkable accomplishments for one so young, flew up with Marx and warned him against harp playing, which is a celestial monopoly at a certain height above ground...