Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popped up again to plead that it would be "unfair" to Germany to vote at once. Seemingly the brothers-in-law hoped that even a brief delay would bring intervention favorable to Germany from Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. This was still possible, but French Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin, tall, big-boned and fair, again showed that he knows remarkably well how to handle Britons. The usual sort of Frenchman would almost certainly have demanded an immediate vote, and in so doing he would have been well within France's juridical rights. Instead, towering M. Flandin rose...
...Grant. Like his contemporaries in the service, Longstreet served in the Mexican War. By the time the Civil War started he had settled down in the paymaster department. His experience and his massive self-confidence started him off in the Confederate Army as a brigadier-general. "Six feet tall, broad as a door, hairy as a goat," Longstreet was compact of ambition and stubbornness. The first summer's campaign showed that he was a first-rate defensive fighter but unaggressive and slow on the attack...
...Duncan, the Cap'n's young nephew. He had his first hunt, and was blooded (given the accolade of a dab of blood on the cheeks, from a torn bit of the killed fox). He sneaked away to cockfights, hunted rats, drank in wisdom and tall tales from his elders. He learned to distinguish the distant hounds by their baying, how to tell when they were on the right line. When the year came full circle, Duncan's story and the fox's drew nearer & nearer together. The Cap'n's hunt made...
...Tall and quiet like his brother, "Stu" is not a managing editor (of which there are two on the Brown Daily Herald) but is the Editor-in-Chief of the Amherst Student. Intellectually brilliant, last week he was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is president of his class this year, is one of the three members of his class on the Student Council, and was a member of the student committee of three formed to investigate the class cut system at Amherst. He was the only member of this committee to agree with the faculty committee...
...happened because big-boned, tall and sportsmanly French Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin is one of the few Latins who knows England and the English thoroughly. More often than any other French statesman he slips across the Channel to shoot grouse in Scotland or ride to hounds with English country squires. M. Flandin knows Mr. Baldwin. He is familiar with the reluctance of the Prime Minister to use the telephone, his refusal to read newspapers on Sunday and his instinctive habit of not feeling strictly bound by promises which British statesmen may make outside the United Kingdom (TIME...