Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas Day a few bottles of wine belonging to Graziano Taite of Jersey City disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Graziano got very angry, and in the resultant brawl a giant Negro called "Smiling Joe" Thomas was stabbed in the heart. Smiling Joe, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds, was rushed to a hospital at Kearny, N. J., where doctors cut through his chest wall, opened the pericardium or heart envelope so that the heart lay visibly beating before their eyes, and delicately extracted a three-inch piece of broken knife blade. They took care...
Cambridge police have also issued a poster seeking information. In it he is described as "five feet eight inches tall, weighs one hundred and seventy pounds, ruddy complexion, brown wavy hair, perfect teeth, black eyebrows, long black eyelashes, usually smiling. He has a small irregular scar on lower part of abdomen. He is very good looking and a neat dresser. When last seen he had on a blue flannel coat and gray trousers...
...prowl car men were in the museum at 4:17 o'clock, but the fugitives had made their escape by that time. A caretaker of the museum said that he saw a "very pale" man, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing about 150 pounds, leave the museum. That, so far, is the only clue...
...flags hung from the walls, a long table sported baskets of flowers and an icy cake decorated with sugar baseball bats & balls, and about 100 baseball men milled noisily about sipping Scotch & soda. Presently they began to munch chicken patties, crab cutlets, cakes, nuts and mints. Suddenly a tall, gaunt old fellow with bushy white eyebrows and sunken eyes strode in briskly. The guests promptly gave him a spontaneous yell of greeting. The old fellow was Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), manager, treasurer, president and co-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics. The occasion was his 75th birthday...
...HURRICANE'S CHILDREN-Carl Carmer-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Collection of 20 freshly-collected U. S. folk tales, interspersed with roaring prose poems, about the tall doings of such giant standbys as Paul Bunyan, such lesser-known U. S. genii as Ichabod Paddock and Kemp Morgan, a Nebraska newcomer named Febold Feboldsen...