Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fame four years ago in Europe and delighted Mussolini; Soprano Gina Cigna, who earned a gold medal studying piano at the Paris Conservatory, has been a star at Milan's La Scala ever since Toscanini recommended her there six years ago. Much was expected of Kerstin Thorborg, tall young Swede whose contralto won her first place at the Stockholm Royal Opera...
...fellow Presidents suggesting the conference which his State Department had arranged. And last week as the S. S. American Legion tied up at Buenos Aires, Messrs. Hull & Welles stood on its deck, acting once more as advance men for Franklin Roosevelt's personal appearance. On the pier a tall professorial man with a long stiff neck and high stiff collar frantically waved his hat. He was their host, Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine Foreign Minister, who 24 hours before had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1936 and who was so delighted that he could hardly wait...
Bolivia's Foreign Minister, Enrique Finot, also recently a minister to Washington; tall, swart, fiery, jingoistic, still an aggressive U. Sophobe...
...business. To handle the money end of his affairs he has headquarters in London, where he is called "The Great White Father," another in Manhattan's RKO Building, where there is a photomural of a scene from his Bittersweet. In each of these places, head man is a tall (6 ft.), graceful Yaleman (1922) of 37-John C. Wilson of Trenton, N. J. After college he escaped briefly from Wall Street when given a small part in a road company of Polly Preferred. Back in trade, he got Noel Coward's brokerage account for Chas. D. Barney...
...Tall, sober, handsome and immaculately dressed Satirist Grosz was born in Berlin in 1893, has been a resident of Long Island since 1934, expects to become a U. S. citizen. Condemned to death as a pacifist during the War, he was let off with front-line service on the Western Front through pressure from Berlin liberals. At the age of 23 he was already a potent figure. He was spared to live through the bitter years of Germany's civil war and inflation, to draw with biting irregular line the gross Prussian junker, the rise of the Nazis...