Word: talling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Merchants in Compton, Calif, set aside one night exclusively for male Christmas shoppers; in their zeal, some hired foot-tall players to keep women...
...made the Daily News, the late Captain Joe Patterson, demanded that his headline hunters make their heads "understandable, applicable and bright." The man who keeps them that way is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), red-mustached William Bernard Murphy, 53, copydesk chief. A paper like the Daily News is only as good as its copy desk, and the desk is as good as its chief, who must combine speed, accuracy, zeal, bad temper, and a quick eye on guard for double meanings...
...prowler, called a sex pervert by Cambridge police, was described by girls at six Acacia st. and at Founder's House, as young, dark-haired with a crew cut, slim about five feet ten inches tall, with trance-like, shifty eyes...
Yard residents witnessed a murder last night on the steps of Widener Library a little after 7 p.m. Sergeant Toomey, who was forced to stand by helpless during the killing, described the assasin as "a two-tone brown owl, about 14 inches tall, weighing around 10 pounds." His victim was an unidentified gray pigeon...
Years later, Elsa became librarian at the Lake Junior High School in Denver, and began ordering all the books she could on U.S. folklore heroes. She also got a teacher friend of hers all steamed up about it. The teacher, Miss Julia Eriksen, had been raised on homegrown tall tales in a Colorado mining camp...