Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Savannah's tall, handsome Bishop O'Hara, a comparative stranger to Atlanta, professes to have known nothing of the antecedents of his palace until the sale was completed. Through similar ignorance his name has been confused lately with that of Gerald O'Hara. the hard-drinking Irish father of Heroine Scarlett O'Hara, in Novelist Margaret Mitchell's panoramic Atlanta novel. Gone With the Wind. Meticulous Author Mitchell laboriously checked reams of old records to make sure none of her names was real, but missed news accounts of Bishop O'Hara's appointment...
...white and green running lights, a mast, an anchor, bowsprit (which folds), life preservers, two sets of government pilot rules. Speed at sea is six knots, on dry land 35 m.p.h., on marsh 12 m.p.h. Since landmarks are scarce in Louisiana marshes and the grass often grows twelve feet tall, all steering is done by compass...
...Mississippi-born Garner Tullis became a cotton firm clerk, then a trader, then one of the most astute traders on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. He was Rex, King of Carnival in the 1935 Mardi Gras, highest social honor in the city. Partner Robert E. Craig II is 38, tall, slim, and a crack contract player who enters big tournaments with his wife...
...Author. Born in Wethersfield, Conn., in 1863, tall, robust, blue-eyed Charles McLean Andrews says that his life could be of interest to none, hopes his writings may be. The son of a minister, descended from one of the first New Haven settlers whose colony he has studied, he graduated from Trinity College (Hartford) at 21, published his first book, The River Towns' of Connecticut at 26 while associate professor of history at Bryn Mawr, married six years later, taught at Johns Hopkins before he became Farnum Professor of American History at Yale in 1910. In his office...
...test one evening last week. Up to a microphone in NBC's Chicago studios stepped the master of ceremonies of the NBC Jamboree to announce "the phenomenon of the century . . . the only mouse in the world who actually sings." Into the studio marched the Industrial School's tall, gaunt Manager Oscar Alva Allred, carrying Minnie in a wire-fronted box. Holding the cage before the microphone, Manager Allred poked a small piece of insulated wire through a hole in the box top, tenderly prodded Minnie's belly. As the visible audience of 400 listened raptly, out over...