Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...driving a popular-priced American car and is not too familiar with its mechanics. . . . We reach a scene that sobers him. A motor truck has just plunged over a 150-foot precipice. Mangled remains of the driver are dragged up to the road. He lies there dying, a tall, fair, handsome young
With little enthusiasm two hard-shelled reporters went down New York Harbor last week to meet the incoming Swedish American Gripsholm. One was stocky, red-faced James ("Jimmie") Lanehart of the New York Journal, the other tall, lean David ("Dave") Davidson of the New York Post. Bored with what seemed to be routine assignments, they first sought out Swedish Admiral Fabian Tamm, listened politely while he claimed that his was a peaceful nation. From peaceful Admiral Tamm they went to Gertrud Wettergren, sleek, dark-haired Swedish contralto who is shortly to make her debut at the Metropolitan Opera. Mme Wettergren...
Crapouillot now appears bimonthly, has an average circulation of 50,000 which occasionally spurts to 100,000. Tall, handsome, 47, author of four novels, Editor Galtier-Boissière is famed as a gourmet and as the best-dressed of French literati. His immunity from libel suits makes knowing Frenchmen nod, credit his exposures with deadly accuracy...
...Prussian censor, became widely known in radical intellectual circles. At the age of 24 he was editor of a radical paper in Cologne, helped to boost its circulation in six months from 885 to 3,200, before it was suppressed. While editor of the paper he met Friedrich Engels, tall, good-natured son of a wealthy manufacturer, famed for drinking bouts and for philosophic and economic articles in obscure journals. Engels had also begun his literary career by writing bad verse. Their first meeting was unfriendly, since Marx identified Engels with a group of irresponsible Berlin bohemians who had advocated...
...Author. Audrey Wurdemann's first book of verse was published before she was 16, sponsored by the California poet, George Sterling. Born in Seattle, she graduated from the University of Washington in 1931, married Poet Joseph Auslander (The Winged Horse) in 1933, now lives in Manhattan. Tall, slender, black-haired, she is extremely shy, likes to cook and run her home, does not believe that poets must necessarily be temperamental or that they require a room of their own before their inspirations can flower...