Word: talling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During World War II, tall, stringy J. D. Shelley made good money as a construction worker. His wife Ethel Lee had a job as a maid. Like many other Negro families, the Shelleys scraped and pinched to get every possible nickel into the bank. They had six children. They lived in a savage St. Louis slum, and they ached for quiet, decency and a home of their...
...Farran did not die. He fought with the maquis in France and with a group of girl partisans in Italy. Later, he described his adventures with almost boyish enthusiasm ("One girl in particular will always remain in my memory . . . She was a tall, raven-haired girl with Irish blue eyes . . . as brave and dangerous as a tigress and was completely devoted to the British company . . ."). He felt lost when peace came. "I always expected to be killed in battle," he said. "Now I was left stranded, spared by some odd trick of fate...
...Tall, rubicund Msgr. Gustavo Testa gained credit at Rome for his quiet oiling of troubled Franco-German waters in the Ruhr after World War I. In 1935 he became Apostolic Delegate to Egypt and Arabia. Testa is the first man to bear his new title: Apostolic Delegate to Palestine...
...Averell Harriman as ECA's ambassador-at-large. The two got together for the ceremony, and then discovered that a Bible was lacking. A messenger was sent for one. Also, a flag was lacking. A messenger went for one. Bible and flag arrived, but the flagstaff was too tall for the ceiling. So the tip was removed. Then Vinson discovered that Harriman's commission was missing. A messenger ran and got it, and Vinson finally swore in Harriman. He then went through the motions three more times for news photographers...
...painting received more attention than all the others put together. It was a frothy bit by pink-cheeked, prosperous Jean-Gabriel Domergue. France's fashionable painter of the moment, Domergue has created a type of nude (tall, slim, boyish, with tiny, upturned breasts) that is as stylized as the Petty girl...