Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witness who claimed to represent most territory was tall, lean David Darrin: he announced himself as representing "The United Nations of the Earth Association." This, it developed, was no more than a letterhead and David Darrin. He offered a charter of his own: "The Tentative Constitution of the United Nations of the Earth." It was not examined. The World Security Charter he dismissed as "godless . . . a monstrous crime against American liberties...
Five feet nine inches tall, he weighed 150 Ibs. during the two years (1902, 1903) he played fullback on an oft-defeated Navy team. There are countless versions, with apocryphal trimmings, of the incident in which Halsey starred most conspicuously as "the bull." Navy was being flattened by a beefy, bulldozing V.P.I. team. A middie tackled the bruiser who was carrying the ball for V.P.I., rolled with him across the sidelines and under the bleachers. The crowd cheered the mid die, but he did not get up: thoroughly bulldozed, Bull Halsey was carried off on a stretcher...
Representative Keefe hinted that the answer would involve Government agencies, Congressmen, Senators and other bigwigs. He went to Chicago to probe by himself. By last week one speculator, other than General Foods and Dan Rice, had been identified: tall, ministerial Plane-Builder Glenn L. Martin. The Department of Agriculture charged that he and his broker had violated a Government regulation that limits the amount of rye futures an individual may trade daily to 2,000,000 bushels. Glenn Martin's broker had traded 3,000,000 bushels...
...Tall and broad, with the heavy, prominent features and classical tastes of a Roman emperor, Rhodes also combined the characteristics of an Elizabethan freebooter, a financial tycoon, and a humorless, aoth-Century dictator. "I contend," he said, "that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race." He would lay his big hand on a map of Africa, printed with the colors of many nations, and cry: "I want to see it all red, all red!" He envisioned an Anglo-North American empire that...
Born. To Corporal Mickey Rooney (real name: Joe Yule Jr.), 24, indefatigable cinemadolescent, now with a Special Services entertainment unit in Europe ; and Betty Jane Rase Yule, 18, tall, blonde Miss Birmingham of 1944: their first child, a son ; in Birmingham. Name: Joe Yule 3rd (nickname: Mickey). Weight...