Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Smith boasts petite, rather than the usual robust, features, saying she is 5 feet 4 inches tall and only 112 pounds. Atop her sleek frame rests a golden blond head. Miss Coleman, who is a Sophomore at St. Mary's, failed to list measurements...
Sometime later we welcomed to our very "Christmas Evey" party a tall man in his thirties, with a weather-beaten face and intense blue eyes surrounded by the tiny wrinkles which come from long years at sea. It was Lieut. Capt. Helmuth von Mücke. We sat down to Christmas Eve dinner about 8 o'clock. At midnight coffee was served (also Christmas cookies), but not until 3 o'clock in the morning did anyone think of the time or of moving from their places. We heard at first hand the story of those now world-famous...
...Ambassador to Japan Joseph Clark Grew is such a skillful diplomat that every time he criticizes the Japanese, they like him better. He has virtually all the qualities which a foreign emissary to Tokyo needs: seven years' residence in the country, tall body, grey hair, dark mustache, spectacular brows, horn-rimmed glasses, sensitivity, firmness, a gentlemanly capacity for hard work and saki (rice wine), good clothes, a beautiful house filled with Oriental antiques, and one deaf ear, which he knows how to turn at the right moment...
From such a countryside not yet at war, but grimly preparing for the worst, did Finland's gruff, humbly born, dark-bearded and deeply beloved President Kyosti Kallio last week depart. He left Helsinki by air for Stockholm to confer in desperate earnest with the three tall, umptigenarian Kings of Scandinavia, all markedly democratic, each a devout Lutheran and all keenly aware that the unleashed might of ruthless, un-Christian Bolsheviks and Nazis now menaces the peaceful Nordic States...
Assembler of the Masterpieces of Art exhibit at the New York World's Fair was tall, resourceful Director Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner of the Detroit Institute of Arts. To Detroit, appropriately, will be shipped next month 42 of the 45 paintings Dr. Valentiner borrowed abroad. If World War II continues, they will later tour other U. S. museums which are willing to underwrite their $2,500,000 insurance...