Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tinker's Creek He led his class in high school. At 15, he took over the local Epworth League and made it into a tri-city organization which embraced two neighboring towns. In the fall of 1908,17-year-old Louis Johnson, handsome, strapping and 6 ft.1 in. tall, descended on the University of Virginia at Charlottesville...
...Evans, longtime Kansas City personal and political friend of Harry Truman. Tall, white-haired Tom Evans lent Truman $5,000 to help finance his 1940 senatorial campaign. In 1948 Evans gave $3,000 himself, raised $100,000 more in the Midwest. He owns Kansas City's station KCMO, is board chairman of Crown Drug Co., a chain with 85 stores in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma...
...likes to recall, the circulation was so small (900) that "I could carry the entire issue on my back." Today, says Grosvenor, who shares his magazine's passionate addiction to detail, "A single issue would form a pile more than eight miles high, or 79 piles each as tall as the Washington Monument." In its familiar yellow-bordered, acorn-decorated wrapper, this month's issue reached 2,150,000 living rooms, libraries, throne rooms and dentists' offices from Maine to Monaco...
...commutes to her Union Square studio five days a week ("Some people say they can't work in the city, but no one ever bothers me here"). She lunches standing up at a nearby soda fountain, watching the people around her and "hoping for something to paint." A tall, brisk woman with braided black hair and attentive brown eyes, Isabel Bishop looks rather like a chemistry teacher in her tattered white working smock...
...suspense begins to build up when Tommy (Bobby Driscoll), a tenement kid with a habit of telling tall tales, sees a murder. When he tells his sober, hardworking parents (Barbara Hale and Arthur Kennedy), they do not believe him; neither do the police. But the murderers (Paul Stewart and Ruth Roman) get wind of Tommy's knowledge and decide...