Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...title role of Ariadne, Manhattan's up-&-coming City Opera Company cast tall, stately, 38-year-old Ella Flesch, a Hungarian exile who had once been Composer Strauss's own choice for the part. A soprano prodigy ("In my cradle I had tones") she sang Aïda at the Vienna State Opera Company when she was 18. Four years later Strauss heard her sing Rosenkavalier. He put her into the leads in Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten...
Gurley, a natural born runner, is a tall husky redhead from Newton who has no high school experience in either track or cross country and who ran for only a few brief weeks in the fall of 1943 before he went into the army. As far as could be determined, his election sets some sort of a record in Varsity sports--although he is in the class of '47, he is only a second term Freshman, a fact which augurs well for future of cross country...
...Welcomed tall, sad-looking W. Averell Harriman to his Cabinet, kidded him about his favorite ball team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, losing the pennant to Missourian Truman's favorite, the St. Louis Cardinals...
...look under the table any longer--there's a real live Red standing up!" In fact, there were twenty-four of them, straight from the Soviet Union. They had flown into Prague just two days before the opening of the Student's Congress--dark, semimongoloid Usbeke from Tashkent, tall Latvians from Rigs, and a dazzling blonde from the Ukraine...
...flesh, he is good-looking, not too large, stands 5 ft. 10 in. tall, weighs 188 pounds, and walks with a noticeable spring in his step. In the stands Saturday, the hymns of praise that echoed skyward every time he tied his shoelaces or adjusted his helmet were strangely reminiscent of Fenway, where the crowd blows its top every time Ted Williams gets a base on balls. Let no parallel be drawn between the two athletes themselves...