Word: talling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liberal Education. Dean Gooderham Acheson, now 55, is a tall, tweedy mixture of dignity and good humor, and by no means as stuffy as his pukka sahib mustache makes him look. His British-born father, Edward Campion Acheson, was Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut, his mother was a daughter of the wealthy Gooderham whiskey distilling family in Canada. Young Dean went to Groton, on to Yale for his A.B., then to Harvard for his law degree. He got into government as a protege of Harvard's Felix Frankfurter and a secretary to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis...
...messenger said he had an important letter to deliver by hand. He was ushered into the little white parish house beside Buenos Aires' church of Corpus Domini. In the pastor's study, tall, ruddy-faced Jose Maria Dunphy, 42, tore open the handsomely embossed envelope. The letter, signed by a secretary of Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello, was curt and final. Father Dunphy was relieved of his parish duties, effective at once. "May God help you," the last line read...
...Pattern. Tall, henna-haired Mazo de la Roche had written Mary Wakefield in the pattern of other Jalna novels. The setting was southern Ontario, where Mazo herself was born about 60 years ago ("I am not old enough to be proud of my age") and it was written not far from the countryside the author described...
...nightcap at the Blockhouse, Leverett's well-organized squad handily whipped an Eliot group that had all the coordination of a nine-months-old elephant. The game resolved into a struggle between the tall men of the teams, Dave Belcher of the Bunnies and Bob Crichton of Eliot. Between them they monopolized the backboards; Belcher scored 12 points and Crichton got 18. Leverett led all the way, showing superiority in shooting, particularly the sets of Jim Ross (8 points), passing, speed, and particularly in teamwork. It was Eliot's first loss, to three wins, and Leverett's first...
...clock that night Egypt had a new Premier: tall, stocky Abdel Hadi Pasha, former cabinet chief to King Farouk and onetime Foreign Minister. Like his old friend Nokrashy, he is a strong nationalist and leader of the Saadist Party, is expected to push the war in Palestine and continue the clean-up of the Moslem Brotherhood...