Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week Derek D. Dickinson, a tall, lean, pale U. S. citizen of 38, showed his discharge papers from the Leftist Spanish Air Force. He claimed that last fall he went up from Valencia in answer to a radio from Dictator's Son Bruno Mussolini asking that someone good be sent up to duel with him. The rendezvous was at 15,000 feet, eleven miles out to sea from Valencia, and according to Derek D. Dickinson each duelist was escorted by three planes which acted only as observers or seconds at the duel. The weapons: a Spanish-built...
Prince Johannes zu Loewenstein is not a roulette player himself. Scion of an ancient noble German line, he is a 37-year-old Doctor of Philosophy who lives in Vienna, a brother of Hubertus Loewenstein, prominent German Catholic. Passing through Baden two years ago, tall, solemn Prince Loewenstein stopped at the casino to watch a roulette table in action. He was impressed by the jitters of notetakers who tried to write down not only the numbers which turned up, but their colors, their positions on the transverse and vertical rows of the betting cloth and various other group affiliations. There...
Emperor Nero is supposed to have been a bang-up organist and bagpiper. England's Henry VIII composed chamber music and religious choruses. Germany's Frederick the Great was a flute player. Most musical of present-day royal figures is Denmark's tall, genial Crown Prince Frederik...
...village on Long Island's north shore, live estate owners, commuters and many Polish, Italian and Negro families whose breadwinners work on the estates. In Roslyn's schools children from all these groups sit side by side. Ten years ago these schools began to go "progressive." Since tall, athletic Superintendent Frederick R. Wegner (a onetime Cornell baseball player) arrived four years ago, they have won fame outside Roslyn. But progressive education, though less costly in Roslyn than in some other towns, is more expensive than old-fashioned schooling and a year ago Roslyn taxpayers began to circulate...
...enough to man two or three more shells than were in the water last season. Coach Valentine has special hopes for the Freshman crew this year because he reports that he has two good Freshman crews--every man over 180 pounds in weight and more than six feet tall...