Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council of the League of Nations without Italy. Last week the League delegates from Argentina, Australia, Chile, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Great Britain. Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Spain and Turkey hitched themselves up to a green baize battle between handsome, toothy Anthony Eden of Great Britain and bald, moose-tall Pierre Etienne Flandin of France...
...Arthur Bannister's trial for murder in Dorchester was enlivened by tall, red-coated Royal Mounted Police Sergeant Bedford Peters' fainting in the witness box, as he examined the late Phillip Lake's gold teeth. Arthur was summarily convicted of murder...
...Tall, lanky David Blythe roved from hotel to boarding house, painted local worthies at about $15 or $20 per head. His artistic ability made such a marked impression on one gentleman that, passing Blythe's portrait of an acquaintance staring blankly from a store window, he bowed, doffed his hat, murmured: "Good morning." He made friends and local fame not only by his pictures and convivial eccentricities but by the reams of flowery verse he wrote for local newspapers under the pen name "Boots...
...Tall, portly, affable Monsignor Corrigan brings an able administrative hand to the University which Bishop Ryan endeavored to make a Catholic Harvard or Yale. Philadelphia-born, he studied, like many another able young U. S. seminarian, at the North American College in Rome, was ordained priest there 33 years ago. Returning to Philadelphia, he became an ecclesiastical handyman and good personal friend of Denis Cardinal Dougherty. Father Corrigan worked among Italians, published a newspaper called La Verita, taught Dogmatic Theology at St. Charles, was diocesan censor of books, moderator of priests in conference, presiding judge of the diocesan matrimonial court...
...secret marriage. She sent the tactless pair to the Tower, then banished them to the country in disgrace. Although he paid a gigantic fine Ralegh was not allowed at court for five years. From that time on, his schemes went wrong. His expeditions to Guiana brought back little but tall tales. His part in the raid on Cadiz was creditable but he got less than his share of prize money...