Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founder of the League two years ago was a tall, gaunt Anglican, Rev. Wallace Harold Elliott, 54, vicar of swank St. Michael's Church in London. Vicar Elliott is England's most famed "Radio Parson," has been longer on the British air-seven and a half years-than any other churchman. His League, however, did not begin piling up memberships until he, another Anglican, a Baptist and a Congregationalist vowed themselves to Peace at the Unknown Soldier's tomb in Westminster Abbey last Armistice Day. Then, like other Englishmen with a cause in their hearts, they wrote...
Last week King Vittorio Emmanuele III inaugurated the new creation in the famed Palazzo Montecitorio, seat of the old Parliament. Accompanied by Crown Prince Umberto, six dukes and one count, and preceded by four masters of ceremonies, with tall Queen Elena and accredited diplomats looking on from balcony boxes, His tiny Majesty ascended three steps to the dais and sat on his throne. The 682 new Councilors then took their oaths collectively, after which His Majesty, producing typewritten sheets of paper from the pocket of his military tunic, read a restrained, conciliatory speech probably written for him by Il Duce...
...Farouk,* an archeological devotee who rushed to the spot by automobile, three canopic vases (vases with covers in the shape of human or animal heads) were opened. Each of these contained a silver box shaped like the mummy and bearing the name of Sheshonk. In one corner was a tall conical jar sealed with mud. This, not opened at latest reports, was expected to contain papyri or weapons...
...Dine & Dance joint between Kansas City and St. Louis a tall, dapper, bald customer tipped the pretty red-headed waitress 50?. She goggled archly. "Nobody's thrown that much money at me for two days." "Sweetheart," said the customer, "I'd like to throw more than that at you." Ten minutes later, heading for another joint on Route 40, this fast worker quoted the waitress's price to his chauffeur. "I'm supposed to come back for her at two-thirty," he said...
...historians have edged past tall, sonorous-voiced, peg-legged Gouverneur Morris with only a furtive nod. Only biographer with nerve enough to write a friendly word of him was roughriding Teddy Roosevelt. And T. R.'s biography of Morris (1888) made little splash...