Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neilson today seems to Smith's 2,000 girls and their parents the very model of a modern college president, although his strong opinions have occasionally differed from those of many Smith alumnae. He went to Northampton in 1917 from an English professorship at Harvard, where his tall German wife Elizabeth had been snubbed by War-minded faculty wives. Stanchly liberal, Dr. Neilson defended Sacco & Vanzetti, early advocated the recognition of Russia, invited such figures as Bertrand Russell and Harold Laski to speak at Smith...
Cartoon. To tall Clarence Daniel Batchelor of the New York News (TIME, Oct. 26) went the $500 cartoonist's award for a picture of a harlot labeled "War" enticing a boy labeled "Any European Youth." Caption: "Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your daddy...
Near Stooping Oak, Tenn., on the Cumberland Plateau, newshawks last month found a tall, gaunt, 45-year-old named Jackson Whitlow who was daily growing gaunter from a fast to which he said the Lord had called him early in March. His face blotched from his "stomach trouble," Jackson Whitlow daily hoed the vegetable patch behind his cabin, seemed to have no plans beyond continuing his fast, accepting at its end some earthly bounty which the Lord had in mind...
When we arrived at Taormina three hours later there was another family at the station to meet my companions whom apparently they had not seen in may years, for in the excitement of much saluting and kissing I too was kissed and told something to the effect how tall I'd grown! Then there was much laughing and explaining and finally my friends drove off in their donkey cart leaving me with salami and four taxi drivers wanting to take me 700 feet up the mountain where on a narrow rocky plateau rests Taormina, certainly one of the most charming...
...surprise witness at the first session was tall, sharp-nosed, bespectacled Mrs. Harriet Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks, 66, whose right to her brother's fortune by terms of a will drawn nine years before his marriage has been challenged by Colonel Green's widow, redheaded Mabel E. Harlow Green, 66. Dressed completely in black as was the habit of her mother, Hetty Green, the "Witch of Wall Street." rich old Mrs. Wilks sparred verbally with solemn-faced Lawyer Isaac A. Pennypacker, who questioned her on behalf of Widow Green. Ignoring the scales of justice separated...