Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professor of English at Princeton. Later, when he helped edit Webster's Dictionary, he had his family to occupy him. But eight years ago he left Webster's to study and write, soon moved to Cambridge to be near the Harvard Library. There he lives alone, a tall, handsome, white-haired scholar with two sons away at school. When he seeks relaxation from writing such works as An Introduction to the Study of Medieval Versions of the Story of Troy or such moral treatises as The Life Everlasting and The Farther Shore, Professor Griffin can always drop...
Plainview, Tex. was credited with evolving the whole thing beneath his pearl grey ten-gallon hat. A tall, loose-jointed, deep-drawling farmer of 46, Cliff Day has a wife, six children and a 320-acre farm which has been judged "best-balanced" in the State. When AAA came along, Cliff Day was made Chairman of the State Cotton Advisory Board and Hale County...
First president of the union was Maria Gonzalez. A tall, angular woman of 29 notably lacking in sex appeal, she operates a room or as she prefers to call it a "ship" within Mexico City's tolerance zone. Loudly last week she issued her strumpet call...
...Manhattan last week there arrived a man with a message. A tall, billiard-ball-pated, 46-year-old Negro named Garland Anderson, he was ready to expound his message gratis for five nights in Town Hall, then proceed to Boston, Philadelphia and anywhere else his message was wanted. A leaflet announced that Garland Anderson's ''World Tour" was sponsored by Very Rev. Richard ("Dick") Sheppard, Canon of St. Paul's, Chaplain to King George V. Further, Garland Anderson claimed the backing of Sir John Simon, icy British Foreign Minister. Less impressively, his New York sponsors were...
...tall, heavy-framed man with powerful shoulders and a slow, enigmatic smile, Orlando Weber may have been thought icy by the few hirelings that ever saw him. But with his friends he can be gracious, charming and an exciting conversationalist. For years he has delved deep in broad economic studies, has latterly developed strong doctrines concerning economic nationalism and the necessity of upping farm income by subsidy schemes. These he delights to propound to many an aghast or incredulous Wall Streeter. And he retired not to a leisurely country life on his Mt. Kisco, N. Y. estate but to further...