Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London's tall, unarmed, polite police are adequate to deal with Englishmen, Scotsmen or Welshmen. But last week a heavy guard of Bobbies at Euston Station were swept aside like chaff by a crowd of grinning Irishmen who were more than willing to punch the nose of any officer who resisted. With shouts of "WE WANT DEV!", the Irish captured a platform up to which rolled a train bearing President Eamon de Valera. They clawed and climbed their way to the roof of the train -something which in England "isn't done" -cheered and waved Irish flags while...
...Panda gives credit for taking panda No. 1. Su Lin, where credit is said to be more than due-to Chinese Professional Hunters Jack and Quentin Young (Yan Di Lin). Businesslike Jack, who had hunted the panda before, arranged the party's affairs; and it was tall, slouchy Quentin, interpreter and trapper, who actually captured fat little Su Lin for her. Notwithstanding, the book amply testifies the romantic courage of Mrs. Harkness-a city-bred woman who ventured into a foreign wilderness with no preparation beyond the reading of adventure stories...
Included in the questionnaire issued by Virginia Vonne, Secretary, are such queries as, "Do you like a girl tall, short, of medium?"; "Do you prefer a good dancer, good talker, good listener, hearty eater?"; "Do you favor heavy or light make...
...years ago in Moscow, Idaho, a tall, husky, smooth-talking drug clerk named Frank Bruce Robinson borrowed $500 from a friend, spent $400 of it to buy some advertising space in a psychology magazine. Reared in the Baptist Church, Frank Robinson had recanted his Christian beliefs, had acquired certain ideas on religious psychology which he wished to teach. His advertisement brought 2.852 replies, one from a British cotton importer of Alexandria, Egypt named Geoffrey Peel...
Charles Austin Beard is a tall, lean, deaf, white-haired, Indiana-born Yankee with a piercing eye, a commanding presence and a gruff voice. For 25 of his 63 years he has been a powerful influence among U. S. historians by virtue of works like Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. His wife Mary, who collaborated with him on The Rise of American Civilization, is a historian in her own right (A Short History of the American Labor Movement), a lecturer, a champion of women's rights. His son William published his first book, Create the Wealth, in 1936. Last...