Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tall, reedy, gentle, devoutly religious and pro-German is Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton in the West Riding of York, Baron Irwin of Kirby Underdale York, Knight of the Garter, onetime Viceroy of India (TIME, May u, 1931, et ante), today Lord President of the Council and Government Leader in the House of Lords. In London, the abrupt decision of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Lord Halifax should go to visit Adolf Hitler last week came more & more to be regarded as a "humiliation" to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who is not pro-German...
...Navy-minded Director Lloyd Bacon, son of the late Actor Frank Bacon (Lightnin'). Director Bacon joined the Navy at the start of the World War, was commissioned as a photographic expert, now holds the rank of lieutenant-commander (reserve), spends vacations on navy cruises. Ebb Tide (Paramount). The tall tale, originally told by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, of the adventures of three beachcombers in a stolen schooner never bore up very well under literary scrutiny. But in the kindlier glow of cinema Technicolor, Ebb Tide's whoppers become leisurely implausibilities, and the story's calm...
...tall, handsome and 53, he is a member of the odd-lot brokerage firm of Jacquelin & De Coppet. Last week he was designated to become the top man of golf -to become president of the U. S. Golf Association, taking office next January...
Last week Dr. Jean Broadhurst, 64, tall, stately, silver-haired professor of bacteriology at Columbia University, announced in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that by-products of the measles virus, known as inclusion bodies, can be brought to sight by a blue-black stain called nigrosin which pathologists use to color and distinguish certain cells of the central nervous system from all other cells. No bacteriologist before Miss Broadhurst, who began her long career by teaching biology at New Jersey State Normal School, seems to have used nigrosin to stain, and therefore to see, these measles inclusion bodies...
Contemporary books on Elizabethan literature range all the way from scholarly volumes, complete with footnotes and a dozen suggested readings for doubtful passages, to out & out romances telling tall tales of the Mermaid Tavern in phoney blank verse. Between these two extremes there are a few studies like Logan Pearsall Smith's On Reading Shakespeare, designed for readers who want to know what modern scholarship has unearthed, but do not want to spend their lives studying such academic posers as what Shakespeare meant by "a mermaid on a dolphin's back," or why Gabriel Harvey hated Christopher Marlowe...