Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only thing that was colder than the shooting of the Crimson five last night in the game against Coach Hank McCarthy's well-drilled M.I.T. quintet was Dangar Gym, and this bad marksmanship combined with the fact that a tall Tech team was willing to drive in for the basket resulted in a 29 to 24 defeat for the Feslermen in their first game of the season...
...raised against the Duchess by that class of English ladies so well represented by Lucy Baldwin, wife of the Prime Minister who pressured him off the throne. With his chin well out, the Duke was said to have introduced his lady to their visitors as "Her Royal Highness." The tall Prime Minister and the taller Foreign Secretary acknowledged, but scarcely confirmed this title with a bow. Later Paris socialites, abuzz over this first meeting since the abdication between the Duke and top-rank British officials, speculated whether the Ministers had thus tacitly recognized the royal status of the Duchess...
Fame & Fortune. Tall, husky, wearing expensive sloppy clothes, living in a Manhattan penthouse, fussed over by a devoted male secretary. Odets clearly enjoys his success. In the first golden days when he was hoisted into fame, he got a great kick from going to parties, being seen out with Beatrice Lillie and Tallulah Bankhead, weekending with Helen Hayes and her husband, Playwright Charles MacArthur...
...back rooms of country stores, President George Ruckdeschel said he was "too low" to discuss the reasons why the store was closing. Low in spirit but not so taciturn was Chairman William A. Charles. Behind his roller-top desk, looking like a baffled and unhappy small-town grocer, this tall, grey-haired, 70-year-old son of the store's founder talked of Charles & Co.'s rise & fall...
Ignazio Silone's The School for Dictators (Harper, $2.50) is not written for those who like to play games. Tall, dark, 38-year-old Ignazio Silone, whose two novels (Fontamara, Bread and Wine) have been called the sum total of modern Italian literature, has had intense first-hand experience under a Fascist dictator. Editor of a labor paper in Trieste when Mussolini came to power, Silone was pursued by Black Shirts for three years (they killed his brother), escaped in 1931 to Switzerland, where he has since become Mussolini's most embarrassing critic...