Word: heights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unhurried deliberate man of medium height (5 ft. 10½ in.), a little paunchy and careless of dress. With his pale face, grey-fringed, bumpy bald head, and shrewd appraising eyes, he looks like a country doctor. At the end of his 17-hour day his cheeks are sunken and he puffs a little as he climbs to the attic bedroom of his stately 22-room Georgian house in Richmond's swank Hampton Gardens. But Freeman has no intention of dropping any of his fulltime jobs. For 33 years he has been editor of the Richmond News Leader...
...features of the Cadet corps: 1) the number of men who boasted shattered limbs, sprained ankles and various other physical disabilities. 2) the fact that the friends of every Cadet were exactly the same size as he was. Either the men are assigned to platoons according to height or the Cadets are a more uniform body than this department was led to believe...
Where Hight Was Right. The late John Holliday, founder of the Indianapolis News, once found height spelled hight in one of his editorials. He stormed into the composing room, where the foreman showed him the word spelled that way in his own copy. Barked Holliday: "If that's the way I spelled it, that's correct." It was hight in the News until a new stylebook came out last year...
...times are not what they were when the silent King of Kings was made. Said he: "Where you have the actor's voice, the characterization is too concrete. I hate the idea of a real Christ talking in any motion picture. The industry has not yet reached a height where it should take such a step...
Tenderfoot. In Spokane, Maxine Mayther was granted a divorce when she told the judge that her husband "thought the height of entertainment was listening to The Lone Ranger...