Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tall, brunette Princess Marina's swarthy brother-in-law, Prince Paul of Jugoslavia, has a castle near Bled amid the wild beauty of the Slovene Alps. There the courtship ripened as George, 31, and Marina, 27, swam in the icy lake, galloped over mountain trails and strolled in the great park. The couple were dogged constantly by Inspector Harry Evans of Scotland Yard who has dogged Mahatma Gandhi, spends much time dogging Cabinet Ministers. One night Prince George sent a long cablegram to King George at Balmoral Castle amid Scottish scenery even wilder than the Slovene. Next day Prince Paul...
...Japan's avalanche against Shanghai she whelped a towering hero, General Tsai Ting-kai of the deathless 19th Route Army (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Last week on the Olympic he steamed into Manhattan and Chinatown went wild. Rich merchants had hired a suite for their hero at the tall-towered Waldorf-Astoria. They sent three planes with Chinese pilots roaring down the bay to dip and zoom in welcome. As the Olympic drew in, 4,000 jubilant celestials jammed the pier and Chinese drivers of a motorcade of 200 cars pushed down the buttons of their horns, kept them down...
...Slightly ashamed of his skill at table tennis, he now plays only onboard ship. He plays tennis eight months every year, does not practice before a match because it does his game no good. His fiancee is British Cinemactress Mary Lawson, a onetime tap dancer, who is 5 ft. tall, wears size 2 shoes, plays no tennis at all. Last week she was at Shepherd's Bush making a picture called Schooldays in which she plays...
Winning 16 games in a row is an American League pitching record that has been equalled only twice in 22 years. In Washington last week a tall young man with small blue eyes and big red ears walked to the middle of the diamond, started to pitch for the Detroit Tigers. Pitcher Lynwood (''Schoolboy") Rowe needed one more game to tie that record...
Born in Texas 22 years ago to a crippled circus acrobat, Lynwood Rowe is 6 ft. 4 in. tall. He was the best player on all his high-school teams. Instead of going to college on a scholarship, he signed a contract to play baseball for Detroit, joined the team last season. But in the record he has compiled since then there was a flaw. He had beaten every team but Washington. The score when the last inning started last week was: Washington 2, Detroit...