Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more notorious than romantic, the union of Ethel du Pont and Franklin Roosevelt is Wedding-of-the-Year. No two families figure more prominently in the nation's industrial and political history. And no handsomer couple is likely to exchange vows anywhere on earth this June than the tall (6 ft. 4 in.), slim, Harvard oarsman and the lissome sportswoman who becomes his bride. But position and pulchritude were not so responsible for the Roosevelt-Du Pont wedding's capturing public imagination as the fact that it culminated as bang-up a love story as Kathleen Norris ever...
...Love reported that, preparing himself to write about the execution, he had consulted an account he had written six years ago at the time of the murder. He had found discrepancies. Checking up with police records, he found that dying Lizzie Jaynes had described her murderer as 6 ft. tall, fair haired and grey eyed. Jordon was 5 ft. 65 in., black-haired, brown-eyed. Franklin Roosevelt stopped trolling long enough to radio Washington, stay Thomas Jordon's execution for the sixth time, order the Department of Justice to investigate. Last week, four days before the seventh time...
...bloom at last. By last week the spadix, a yellow central spike, was 6 ft. 1½ in. long and thick as a telephone pole at its base. In, the final 24 hr. of its rise it grew one inch. The whole plant was 8 ft. 5 in. tall...
...tall, bald, stringy . as ever, the "Chance" seemed to many an alumnus no older. To Justice McReynolds he spryly observed: "I should be very glad if I could get on the same platform with you and run for President and Vice President. I have a suspicion that such a combination would be successful." But his voice cracked as he recited to his guests...
...Tall, baldish Donald Ogden Stewart began mildly with a description of working in Hollywood, soon came back to the same unhumorous warning...