Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tycoon Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, 58, a tall, vigorous, pink-cheeked extrovert who speaks a dozen languages, is called "Rockefeller of Sweden" because he gave $7,500,000 for a research institute, $100,000 for antiaircraft batteries to defend Stockholm. The Bofors Co., which makes antiaircraft guns, is largely his. So is most of worldwide Electrolux Co. (refrigerators, vacuum cleaners). His lady is from Kansas City, Marguerite Liggett, who studied opera singing in Berlin. His yacht, the Southern Cross, is one of the world's largest, was once owned by Flier Howard Hughes...
...such a try, Britain's new Admiral of the Fleet is a daring, dynamic commander. Tall, hawk-browed Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, 62, commanded the Colossus at Jutland. Six years ago, calling (like Winston Churchill) for Britain to rebuild her fleet, he predicted just what he had on his hands last week: "a hell of a fight...
...gates of the Foreign Office just off Marshal Pilsudski Square, a tall man dressed in black stooped to read one of the posters pasted low on the wall. Passersby began to notice him. By the time he straightened up a crowd was around him. "Beck! Beck!" they cried, cheering and clapping. Colonel Josef Beck, Foreign Minister of Poland, smiled, touched his hat, and disappeared into the Foreign Office...
Three quickest ways for a belligerent to get a neutral nation into a general war (as an enemy): bomb the nation's property, sink its ships, kill its people. Person most intimately concerned last week with keeping the U. S. out of the European war was the tall, athletic, dressy, rich, charming U. S. Ambassador to Poland, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, who, without training, has proved himself an intelligent, far- sighted diplomat. He could do nothing about U. S. ships, but he quickly moved most U. S. citizens out of killing range, persuaded them to sell their property...
...been assistant district attorney of New York County. As a writer, he has authored 40 books from love stories (The Needle's Eye) to firsthand reporting of his police and court experiences (Courts, Criminals and the Camorra). But most people know Arthur Train as the creator of tall, gaunt, kindly, shrewd, humorous, cigar-smoking Lawyer Ephraim Tutt, who by using the tricks of the law to outsmart the tricks of the law, manages to evoke a brand of justice that, if not strictly according to Blackstone, is humane and just...