Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese. His name did not come out last week. Before the parade could reform there occurred another, equally fatalistic demonstration. A Chinese patriot, who had watched the bomb explode, gave a shrill cry: "Long live the Kuomintang!" (Government Party), and committed suicide by leaping off the top of a tall building...
...wife of Diplomatist-Biographer Harold Nicolson. Vita Sackville-West grew up in an Elizabethan castle which contains 365 rooms, 52 staircases, seven courts, covers seven acres-an environment where, says Hugh Walpole, dukes meant no more to her than Scotland Yard men did to Edgar Wallace. To this background, tall, brunette Author Sackville-West, now 45, owes the subject matter for The Edwardians, a novel which (in the U. S. at least) made her literary reputation, also her semi-legendary fame as heroine of Virginia Woolf's Orlando...
...Pepita she now offers the two latest portraits of her "too prodigal, too amorous, too weak, too indolent, and too melancholy" family. The first is of her gypsy grandmother Pepita Duran y Ortega; the second of her mother, who died last year at 73. Tall, Andalusian Pepita was descended from a hot-blooded family of old-clothes peddlers, smugglers, bandits fruit sellers, gypsies. Too clumsy to succeed as a dancer in Madrid, in Paris her beauty and Spanish charm were more than enough. Tall, blond, 25-year-old Lione' Sackville-West, of the British diplomatic corps, made...
There's a fair crowd every afternoon down at Briggs Cage, but Mikkola isn't satisfied. "We could use more men in every event. We're particularly short of pole vaulters. They don't have to be experienced, but it would help if they were about six feet tall, pretty fast on their feet, and could stand on their hands...
Green has held down the left end position for two years, usually as a fifty-minute player, and will be the fifth consecutive lineman to lead a Crimson team. He is 20 years of age, five feet 10 inches tall, and weighs 168 pounds, and is a member of Dunster House...