Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technicolor is invaluable in a picture of this sort, and the logging sequences are particularly well done. Admirers of tall timber and crashing cataracts will be right in their element...
...middle of the 19th Century a roving U. S. couple named Rice arrived in Oregon aboard a sailing ship, heard tall tales of Indian massacres in the interior, hastily re-embarked for Hawaii. There they settled on the island of Kauai. Last week a great-granddaughter of the roving Rices prepared to move from her Kauai acres to the biggest ranch in Oregon, whose 275 square miles include the site of the massacres that frightened off her ancestors. Her husband, big, friendly Frederick Warren Wichman, onetime Stanford University oarsman and footballer (Class of 1914), seven times Representative in the Hawaiian...
...famed for his work on Nebraska's State Capitol, it shows a beardless, youthful Atlas stepping up to a granite pedestal with bis left foot, bearing on his shoulders a tremendous astronomical globe whose axis will point at the North Star. The whole thing will be 45 ft. tall, high as a four-story building, and so perfectly balanced that it needs no unusual armature. Sculptor Lawrie needed little help from professional astronomers to get his globe correct. His assistant was his Son Milton, a registered architect and passionate amateur astronomer...
Third-best liar was Mrs. C. B. Forman of Attalla, Ala. Her tall one: A whirling cyclone blew the knot out of an Alabaman's four-in-hand tie, whipped the tie around a greeting card and Christmas package which it delivered to the Alabaman's cousin in the next county...
Commanding the Cyclone is tall, grey-eyed, 46-year-old Captain Renaud, famed in every port of the world for spectacular rescues carried out with a specially adapted Russian icebreaker and a hand-picked crew of 30 who stay on 24-hour duty, functioning with the same perfection as the Cyclone's, expensive mechanical equipment. Minor characters are stony, hare-lipped First Mate Tanguy, who broods over his wife's infidelities on shore, damns the invention of radio because it enables her to time his return; and Boatswain Kerlo, a man with a mysterious aristocratic past, who drinks...