Word: talling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith, Oregon's Wayne Morse, California's William Knowland, Minnesota's Edward Thye, North Dakota's Milton Young, South Dakota's Chan Gurney, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey. They had their own candidate for Taft's job as GOPolicy boss: Massachusetts' tall, handsome Henry Cabot Lodge...
...halftime Holy Cross was ahead only 25 to 15, but the Crimson's spark-plug Captain Bill Hickey fouled out just before the first half. From then on the Holy Cross giants never were challenged. The tall Crusaders set up a strong defense around the boards and Harvard could only shoot from the outside...
Last week, tall, ruddy Clarinetist Reginald Kell, recognized as one of the world's best, let Manhattan judge his respectability in person for the first time. Snowbound in the suburbs, he stomped in the stage door just ten minutes before he was scheduled to start Brahms's B Minor Quintet with the Busch Quartet. But listeners, when they could hear his clarinet over the Busch's whirring blizzard of sound, found nothing snowbound about his playing. Instead, in the slow movement, which he had more, to himself, they heard the kind of soft, singing tone and delicate...
...Tall Man. To find his man, Professor Anderson worked by a patient process of elimination. The late Allen Johnson, editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, had decided on internal evidence that the diarist must have been 1) a New Englander, 2) a former Whig, 3) a Republican in 1860-61, 4) a Senator. Anderson eventually decided that Johnson might be wrong on any or all counts...
...then drew his own composite picture of the unknown diarist-a tall man, an important individual, friendly with Seward, Sumner, Douglas and lesser figures such asr William Aspinwall and James Orr, a man of the world, with a good knowledge of the French language, a strong Unionist with many Southern friends, a man with many business interests and a wide acquaintance in New York City, and-above all-a man who had been in New York City on Feb. 20, 1861, and in Washington on some 20 days between Dec. 28, 1860 and March...