Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jersey City, tall, sour-faced Boss Frank Hague (who had once predicted that Truman would lose New Jersey by 300,000 votes) now did his best for Harry. Fireworks spouted like golden fountains and for a mile the crowds were jammed 40 deep. In Albany-Tom Dewey's home territory-some 10,000 people stood through an early morning downpour to hear...
While Jessup spoke, his tall, handsome wife sat in the visitors' section, knitting calmly...
...entire hotel was bent on pleasing Winston Churchill. Tall, white-haired Lord Hacking, former chairman of the Conservative Party, no common man himself, found that out when he rang for the elevator. An immaculate figure in his perfectly cut dinner jacket, he stood by the elevator gate and watched the car go up eight times, carrying only a waitress with heavy trays. Finally, the elevator boy shouted through the gate: "Sorry, sir, but it's Mr. Churchill's dinner...
...thief was described as about 28 years old and five feet seven inches tall...
...were seen together at dinner, at dancing, and over afternoon milkshakes at the embassy canteen. They were seen together at the movies (where a photographer snapped them seated next to Clement Attlee's son Martin-see cut). What excited the gossips was the hint of a triangle: the tall young Guardsman was supposed to have another girl-Princess Margaret, who would be coming back to London soon from her summer holiday...