Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many U. S. travelers have known vaguely for years that somewhere in Paris stands a replica 20 ft. tall of the 152 ft. Statue of Liberty presented by France to the U. S. in 1886. Hitherto seen chiefly by bargemen on the Seine, the replica of Liberty, standing where it has stood since 1889, now is an unexpected feature of a visit to the Exposition's Colonial Section. Sturdy French and middle-class visitors generally had about decided last week that the place to go for hearty food and sound wines was the Brasserie des Metiers. Also crowded were...
...After the War the British puppetized on the throne of Egypt as "Sultan" the father of today's Boy-King, His Late Majesty Fuad I, who in his declining years was styled "King" (TIME, May 11, 1936 et ante). Last week, however, big-boned, fair and six-foot-tall Farouk I was correctly hailed by Egyptian dignitaries representing his 16,000,000 subjects as "The first Sovereign invested as King of modern Egypt, the Senior Arab Kingdom...
...both categories, big German galleries have found it politic to pack their modern art collections away in cellars out of reach of Nazi bravos. Nevertheless the Nazi Ministry of Education had a wide field for its selection. Professor Adolf Ziegler of the Reich Chamber of Art, a tall young man with wavy blond hair who paints competent nudes, came from Berlin for the opening and declared...
...solicitude for the individual soul was something Harry Patterson worked out for himself. It was a limited achievement because Harry never got much farther than the knowledge that God was looking out expressly for Harry Patterson. Of this, however, there was abundant proof. He was six feet tall and able to do a man's work when he ran away from his grandpa's farm at 14, his mother having married a mail clerk and gone to live in St. Louis. Thereafter seamen on the world's oceans knew him variously as Curly, Blondy, Highpockets, Spar, Slim...
...Tall, sandy-haired, crinkly-eyed President Mackie has held office since January 1936. Born in Frankford, Pa. 58 years ago, President Mackie went to Princeton Theological Seminary, spent a quarter-century in a church in a Philadelphia suburb called Sharon Hill, where he organized what is supposed to be the only church-owned country club in the U. S. complete with clubhouse, swimming pool and 18-hole golf course. He forged to the front in Fund affairs in 1930, when he fought a revival of the Wanamaker movement, won a court battle for a place on the board of directors...