Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Willie's death Editor Ellis made up an imaginary boy to edit his magazine for: Skeeter Bennet, a high-school sophomore 15½ years old, five feet four inches tall, weight 114 pounds. With 285,000 Skeeters reading The American Boy Editor Ellis bought out Youth's Companion...
Descriptions vary widely, from a "tall brunette," a "blonde with green eyes," a "red-head with green eyes," to a "milkmaid." One writer, to clear up any misconceptions, said coyly in the middle of a letter, "I'm a girl, of course...
Whooping into Manhattan, which many saw for the first time, the party took over three floors of the Roosevelt Hotel, busied itself for two days with mass shopping expeditions, visits to museums, theatres, night clubs. At a luncheon where the girls badgered celebrities, Stephens' tall, brown-haired Kay Leftwich was picked by a professional models' agent as "most beautiful American schoolgirl." Third day, having lost only three overcoats a day, reported only one case of illness (cause: overeating) and absorbed considerable informal education on woman's 7,400 problems, the girls embarked in two ships for Florida...
John Phillips Marquand, 45, is a tall, blue-eyed New Englander, a successful contributor to the Satevepost, who last year won literary as well as financial success with his best-selling novel, The Late George Apley...
...World's Fair luncheon for visiting mayors in Manhattan Amos 'n' Andy (Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll) broadcast an extracurricular skit. Amos: "De emblem o' de fair is really bee-yutiful. Dat tall tower reminds me of de Washin'ton monument; an' dat big ball reminds me. . . ." Andy: ". . . of Jim Farley's haid." They were followed by New York City's little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who assumed an accent and ad-libbed: (As Amos) "No mail today. ... I knew you should'n'a made dat crack about Jim Farley...