Word: rimless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Headmaster. With Rahab, Walsingham, Richelieu, Fouche, Stieber and Mata Hari, Allen Welsh Dulles has little in common except his job. A tall, husky (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) man who wears rimless spectacles and conservative clothes. Allen Dulles is an unmistakable product of that nearly extinct patrician society which dominated New York and New England before World War I. With his booming laugh, bouncy enthusiasm, and love of competitive sports, Dulles is uncannily reminiscent of Teddy Roosevelt. He has the young-old look of a college student made up as Daddy Long Legs in the class play...
...relaxed, white-thatched scholar in rimless spectacles, he has managed to be one of the most effective of university presidents with a minimum of flash. "A college president," he says, "has two choices. One is to lean toward being a public figure. I decided to throw my weight toward Princeton." Dodds has built slowly and well on foundations that he never wanted to alter. Unlike Mover Conant or Shaker Hutchins, he can sum up his career so far with a refreshingly unorthodox boast: that in its basic philosophy, Princeton "has not changed in the least in the last 20 years...
Henry Cross was a plump man who wore rimless spectacles, a chesterfield and a walrus mustache. He was also mighty adventurous. Born in upper New York State in 1837, he twice ran away with circuses, and at 16 made his way to Paris, where he learned animal painting from Rosa Bonheur. On his return, he went west with a circus, painting the animals and developing an interest in Indian life. Later he decorated circus wagons for P. T. Barnum, finally decided his life was too tame and set forth in search of savages...
...come across." A host of problems (irrelevant to the presidency, but highly relevant to a campaigner for the presidency) beset him: his voice was flat; he looked like an old man on TV because his light hair and eyebrows did not show up, giving an impression of blankness; his rimless glasses registered as two blobs of light on the TV screen. Reluctantly he submitted to make-up for TV performances. (An Eisenhower staffer found a make-up man who had been a paratrooper; this reassured Ike, whose tables of organization had never before included a male beautician.) He discarded...
...from 20 to 70, in profession from clergyman to bank clerk, gathered in London's gaudy Cafe Royal to pay tribute to Britain's arch-puzzler, celebrate the appearance of his 200th puzzle. Sporting a badge marked "Mr. X" and beaming at his admirers from behind his rimless spectacles, Ximenes took the opportunity to ask their forgiveness for No. 26 Down in a recent puzzle, which a lot of "solvers" had found too tough.††† He was forgiven. Said one speaker: "We salute you not only as our tormentor, but as our tutor and friend." Said...