Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems never to take a vacation but fills British newspapers all summer with personal publicity about his "Belisha Beacon" and other traffic gadgets (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), was rewarded by promotion of his Ministry of Transport from sub-Cabinet to full Cabinet status. Minister of Agriculture, Walter Elliott, the tall, taciturn, sagacious Scot who has long been considered one of the Conservative Party's ablest younger men, was shelved by giving him the sinecure Secretary of State for Scotland, and the Prime Minister made his especial favorite at the Treasury, Civil Servant William Shepherd Morrison the new Minister...
...politics and is a mild supporter of the New Deal. Next Republican rubbed out was Senator W. Warren Barbour, big, rich, kinky-haired onetime amateur prizefighter who- four years ago won the seat of the late Dwight Morrow of New Jersey. His job goes to William Henry Smathers, a tall, lanky lawyer, onetime Assistant State Attorney General, who in the U. S. Senate will speak for New Jersey in a Southern drawl, acquired in his native North Carolina. Third Republican to drop out was Rhode Island's rich, conservative Jesse H. Metcalf, who lost to rich, scholarly Theodore Francis...
...lopped off to make a new see, young Lawrence was a baseball-playing student in Boston. In 1911, when Bishop Lawrence was hobnobbing with the elder Morgan and formulating the idea which later grew into his Church's $30,000,000 Pension Fund, his son was a tall, handsome Harvard senior, completing his course six months ahead of his class and returning to coach the fresh man baseball team. Schooled thereafter for the Church, Wr. Appleton Lawrence got his first cure in 1913, as assistant in Grace Church in Lawrence, Mass., where his forebears had owned mills and where...
...except his poverty. His birthplace and" parents were unknown and he had taken the name of a French sea-captain who adopted him during the French Revolution. Sent to Mill Grove, near Philadelphia, in 1803, he quickly learned to hunt, to observe wild life, to make friends with farmers. Tall, strong, impetuous, farsighted, he was an accomplished painter who had studied under Jacques Louis David in Paris, but remained at ease with tough woodsmen and trappers. In 1808 he married a pretty, well-born English girl, soon after failed at a variety of business ventures in New York City, Louisville...
...ways of African whites and native women, about the two handsome models he bought, one for six cows, or approximately ?4. (He tried to hire them, but their parents could see no "difference between a model and a wife.") He writes well about native dances and about the tall, strapping Dinkas, who are great fishermen, great dancers and whose custom it is to straighten their hair with cows' urine and paint their faces white...