Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comparison to yours, but he rules six times as many subjects as you have subscribers. . . . He himself may be "little" compared with the giant of Sweden, or the barrel-like Göring, but so is the average man, on or off the throne. He has been called "fairly tall" by those who know...
Last week in Washington, two tall Wounded Knee veterans named James Pipe-on-Head and Dewey Beard called on small Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier. Their purpose: to urge him to ask Congress to award $1,000 to all living Indian survivors of the battle, including themselves...
Negro Actor Ingram, not to be confused with Director Rex Ingram (Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) has been on & off stage and screen for almost 20 years, played by far his greatest role as de Lawd in the cinema version of Green Pastures. Forty-two, 6 ft. 2 in. tall, 225 lb., he owes most of the vigor of his acting to the vigor of his physique and personality. A medical student as well as an actor, he confesses to finding his career greatly hampered because of his race, dramatizes his position by suddenly placing his dark-brown hand...
...behalf of a Morgan banking group that Richard Whitney strode across the floor to U. S. Steel post on a dark day in 1929 to bid $2.05 per share for 25,000 shares of steel -15 points above the market. That spectacular bid temporarily stayed the avalanche and the tall figure of Richard Whitney became the hero of the crash...
Last week a full-length documentary film on Mexican animals, produced by Brothers Stacy & Horace Woodard, made the road runner-rattlesnake story a little less tall but no less telling. The Adventures of Chico shows 10-year-old Goatherd Chico taking his siesta, guarded by his road runner pet. A rattlesnake approaches. Without hesitation the bird attacks, head feathers fanned and wings tensely spread. Like a matador it lures the snake into striking, easily swings out of reach. Like a matador it waits and feints till the enemy tires, then kills with swift skill...