Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kansas City, Shirley Osborne, 16, of Danville, Kans., was elected president of the Future Homemakers of America. What kind of home did Shirley want? "I want a big house with tall white pillars, a wide balcony in front and a narrow balcony all around. I want four bedrooms and I expect to have four children, two girls and two boys...
Last May, The Doc invited Walter Francis Sheehan, a Catholic, dean of freshmen and athletic director at Williams College, to tell his boys what college would be like. The Doc was greatly impressed by Sheehan's tall, athletic frame (he was a college basketball star), his straightforward manner, and his common sense. The Doc suggested Sheehan to his trustees as his successor...
...London on Christmas morning, 1865, tall, hirsute William Booth came down to breakfast with a straw-lined basket in his hands. "Here," he said to his sons & daughters, "is God's Christmas gift...
Died. Vice Admiral Russell Willson (ret.), 64, tall, elegant wartime deputy (1942-43) to COMINCH Ernie King and military adviser to the U.S. delegations at Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco; of a coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda, Md. Admiral Willson organized the Navy's communications during World War I, retired as adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff after World War II to become associate editor of World Report...
...Cutting Edges. What manner of man is this Howard Hughes-this tall, gangling, aging, sick-looking man of 42 whose life and eccentricities have built a lurid legend...