Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From another corner came the sound of "de big bass," and a tall, toothy colored gentleman added a little rhythm to the saxes. Behind a rack of dinner coats came the delicate gyrations of a cornet, and a powerful, perspiring man in his undershirt could be seen literally wrapping himself around his instrument...
...home of one single Deity." Up through the centuries the author of The Story of Mankind mounts again, telling in words of one syllable whence the Etruscans presumably inherited the arch, what the Romans did with it, why the churches of the Middle Ages were made so tall, how joy went out of art with Christianity and was imported back from Moorish Spain to Provence, how painting began in Italy, became oil painting in Flanders. Dogmatic homilies together with disarming confessions of his own amateur standing appear in every chapter. If the reader wants to know something about Chinese...
High above the pine slopes of South Dakota's Mount Rushmore one day last week a great U. S. flag slowly furled, disclosing the stone carved face of Abraham Lincoln as it would have appeared had that President been 465 ft. tall. Measuring 66 ft. from chin to crown, Lincoln's was the third face to be unveiled in Mountain Carver Gutzon Borglum's huge and heroic Mount Rushmore Memorial. George Washington's was dedicated in 1927 at ceremonies attended by President Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson's last year before President Roosevelt. Last week the chief...
Startled last week were Arkansans and their visitors rolling over Route 71 near Rogers as they rounded curves or topped hills to come upon the horrifying sight of Death itself. A supernaturally tall, black garbed figure, scythe draped mournfully over its left arm stood at the edge of the pavement, beckoning...
...hour later two janitors steed guard at the main gate, barring reporters from the inner courtyard. Thus did the tall, bespectacled German signify his intention of avoiding what might prove embarrassing interviews...