Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although dubbed a "dresser" by many reviewers, Streit has anything but sleep appearance. Tall, sandy-haired with penetrating blue eyes, he has a missionary's seal and a press agent's mastery of organization. From a cavernous briefcase he distributes reprints of the first chapter of his volume and copies 0 of the "Union Now Bulletin," a monthly publication...
Seven years ago, tall Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, laid his lean hands upon the round head of a plump U. S. priest, made him the first U. S. Roman Catholic bishop ever consecrated in St. Peter's Basilica. The bishop was Most Rev. Francis Joseph Spellman, whom the Pope had appointed Auxiliary to William Henry Cardinal O'Connell of Boston. This week Eugenio Pacelli, now Pope Pius XII, appointed Bishop Spellman to be Archbishop of the 1,000,000-odd Catholics of the see of New York, vacant since last September...
...Tall, dashing John Anderson (Journal & American) is Broadway's supreme critic of bad plays, with a great gift for wise cracking down on them. ("[Jeremiah] may be entered ... as prophet and loss"; "Twenty years is a long time, except be tween wars.") Anderson was No. 1 Hellza-poppin-hater. Though murderous with fanciness and fake, he is sometimes too clever and cynical at the expense of a serious play...
...Tall, curly-haired John Mason Brown (Post) is, at 38, the youngest of the newspaper critics. Probably the ablest all-round of the lot, he combines journalistic dash ("Most Hamlets look like the original interior decorator") with analytical skill. With Anderson, he has the highest critical boiling point; brought in a plausible minority report on Abe Lincoln in Illinois. He lectures far & wide, has led Variety's boxscore for best-guessing hits and flops five times in the last nine years...
Captain Hornblower has no actual prototype, though he somewhat resembles Admiral Nelson. A tall, slightly paunchy sea dog with thinning hair, Hornblower is a highstrung, self-doubting man who gets seasick at the start of a cruise, worries about losing his job, goes clammy at the start of a fight, pales at the sight of blood, has the devil's own time keeping his reputation for imperturbability...