Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must to all great men, a debunking came to Socrates this week. The debunker, University of Wisconsin's Professor Alban Dewes Winspear, is a tall, slim scholar, British-born, educated in Canada and at Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar). He has a pedagogic urge to prove that "being in the field of classics doesn't make one an old fogy." Who Was Socrates?* is calculated to make old fogies furious...
...Book's (later Cosmopolitan's) pride and joy. His illustrations for such fictioneers as Blasco Ibanez, E. M. Hull, Arthur Somers Roche and Somerset Maugham were as exotically escapist as the tales themselves, and his studio became famous for its clutter of authentic props. In 1922 tall, enthusiastic, travel-loving Artist Cornwell went to London to work with Frank Brangwyn, has since incorporated that decorator's style with his own in some of the most splendiferous symbolic murals in the Western Hemisphere-one in the Los Angeles Public Library and one now being finished for the General...
Glamor Guys. The younger school of illustrators is, in technique, distinguished for lucid wash drawing, "suggestion" and glamor. Its pioneer artist is Italian-born John La Gatta, 45, a mustachioed believer in the tall brunette and one of the few big-money illustrators who providentially salted his earnings away in real property (on Long Island Sound, with a yacht) before 1929. La Gatta's specialty is swooningly sleek backs. The sex appeal which is La Gatta's stock-in-trade has been parodied by Yaleman Peter Arno in the most devastating battles of black & white in contemporary drawing...
Elektro is seven feet tall, weighs 260 Ibs., is clad in gleaming aluminum. He is operated by 48 electrical relays (circuits actuated by current variations in other circuits) which control his eleven motors by remote control. He can walk forward or backward, with a peculiar limp (only one leg bends at the knee and both huge feet are equipped with rollers). He can salute with either hand. He can count up to ten on his fingers, bending each finger individually. By means of photoelectric cells equipped with color filters, he can tell red from green. He can talk and sing...
...well-written story of minor moment, laid at Harvard and in Mexico (where Wells Lewis has spent the last few summers), They Still Say No concerns the sex life of a Harvard undergraduate. Hero is a tall, dapper, literary innocent named Crane Stewart. Engaged to a cautious girl named Julia, Crane harkens to the lusty bad advice of his pal Jeff, frightens Julia away in a blundering attempt at seduction. At a Park Avenue party, with a girl who is willing, luck is again against him. That summer he goes to Mexico to visit his uncle, falls in love with...