Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alarming even to tourist-hardened Capitol police looked the men from Harlan's hills-tall, muscular, hip-swinging deputy sheriffs in broad-brimmed black hats and uncomfortable store clothes, scrawny miners in patches. A search revealed several with empty pistol holsters slung under their armpits. But the real bosses of Harlan County were not in evidence. Only about one-third of its coal is mined by local owners. The rest, including "captive" mines whose corporate owners consume their entire output, belongs to outside capital. Biggest captive-mine owner is U. S. Steel Corp., others include Ford (whose mines...
...auction was ordered by Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, tall, dark, muscular grandson of the first Baron Rothschild and heir, who will be 27 years old next autumn. His reason was not penury but a lack of interest in magnificence. A strong-minded, outspoken young man of modern tastes, he played cricket at Harrow and now golfs, but his major interest is biology. He lives with his wife in a small house in Cambridge, where he has no room for ponderous treasures. He has a small but choice collection of Cézannes, Picassos, Renoirs...
Thereafter when the white man told tall tales about flying machines he was politely listened to with visible tolerance, but if he pressed his story, or attempted to substantiate it with pictures, he was ceremoniously escorted to the beach to view the bleached remains of the white man's folly, and to listen to the proper member of the local chief's staff comment sadly on "white man's lies...
Seventy-two years ago last week a tall, grave man with chin whiskers entered Ford's Theatre in Washington to see a performance of Our American Cousin. Eleven hours later he was dead. Last week on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination famed Collector Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach exhibited in his cluttered Philadelphia office a collection of Lincolniana which he values at more than $1,000,000. An important item was the notes of Dr. Charles S. Taft, the army surgeon who attended Lincoln's last hours...
...Texans. In Dallas fortnight ago at a hearing to ascertain facts about the Colonel's domicile many a loyal old Texan went before Surrogate Owen's Commissioner, Raymond C. Prime, to vouch for Hetty Green's London-born son as a Texan. Among them was a tall, lanky Negro named William Madison ("Gooseneck Bill") McDonald, 70 and rich. He was Colonel Green's political lieutenant between 1897 and 1909 at a salary of $575 per month. Recalled...