Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hats are very tall or very crooked, with few wide brims, many draped berets...
Into Detroit one day last week pulled a special train bringing Archbishop Edward Francis Mooney to head the newly created Detroit archdiocese, fifth largest of the 17 in the U. S. (TIME, June 14). His pince-nez flashing, tall Archbishop Mooney descended to the platform where Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy and a representative of the city's Mayor Frank Couzens waited to shake his hand...
...Miles & $50,000,000. Entirely unmentioned in Cairo dispatches last week was the de facto ruler of Egypt, moose-tall and tolerant Sir Miles Lampson. He used to be the British High Commissioner in Cairo, became the British Ambassador as soon as Egypt and England set up their recent "alliance." Sir Miles is a grand surviving figure in the Victorian tradition of Bearing the White Man's Burden, spreading the Pax Britannica and generally wiping the noses of people like the Egyptians. Almost nobody disputes that half a century of British dominance in Egypt, more or less disguised...
Director of operations at the Port Hope refining plant is Marcel Pochon, a tall, well-knit Frenchman who once studied under the saintly Pierre Curie. Born in Versailles 48 years ago, Pochon graduated in chemical engineering at the School of Physics and Industrial Chemistry in Paris, studied dyestuff chemistry in Germany, was at War for four years in the French artillery, worked in various laboratories in France and England. In 1932 he joined Eldorado Mines, supervising the transportation and installation of all equipment for the Canadian refining plant. Marcel Pochon speaks fairly good English with a strong accent, wears modish...
Wounded and captured by Bulgarians in the last months of the War, Lieutenant De Queslain was put under the care of a tall, beautiful brunette doctor named Lena Apostolova, who resisted all his efforts to thaw out her businesslike manner. The only time she showed any feeling was when she talked about the Macedonian question, or when she told him about her past, an incredible autobiography revolving around massacres, torture, rape, underground terrorist activity. During the last big French attack, Lena discharged De Queslain as cured, left him to make his way with the retreating Bulgarians. When they next...