Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institute meeting last week came tall, bespectacled Wilmer R. Schuh, 34, of Milwaukee, with a white carnation in his lapel and blunt words about the response of filling station men to the Iowa plan. Mr. Schuh is president of the National Association of Petroleum Retailers, which was formed under NRA, includes more than 50,000 of the 170,000 filling station owners in the U. S. Mr. Schuh's principal job since the Iowa Plan was adopted has been to quell price wars among the new independents. Said...
...interest of safety it would be advisable to remove the tall-lights from all automobiles going to New Haven...
Come and Get It was the story which billed Actress Andrea Leeds as Hollywood's "kiss champion'' after she had spent more than nine hours kissing three young actors to test their ability to play the role of her fiancé in the film. Winner was tall, tennis-playing Francis Xavier Shields. In the course of the picture, he and Actress Leeds (Barney's daughter) kiss neither each other nor anyone else...
...Pope Pius XI set up a new archdiocese with Los Angeles as its centre last month, and elevated Bishop John Joseph Cantwell to be archbishop, San Diego became a separate diocese (TIME, Oct. 5). Last week the Holy Father made known his choice for bishop of that see: a tall, husky, affable priest named Very Rev. Charles Francis Buddy, 49, rector of St. Joseph's Cathedral in St. Joseph...
...Erich F. Schmidt of Chicago's Oriental Institute came upon two magnificent pieces of wall sculpture, each 20 ft. long. They depicted the same scene, a royal audience, as viewed from right and left. Xerxes stands behind Darius, seated in an ornate chair. Their figures are seven feet tall, the others lifesize. A petitioner, slightly bowed, holds his hand to his mouth "in a gesture of respect and appeal." One of the court officials appears to be a Food Taster, as he holds a napkin. The monarch and his son grasp twin-budded lotus blossoms, symbols of royalty. Their...