Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles' Town House, Chicago's Palmer House); in the mirrored boudoir of her Manhattan penthouse. Jewel-&-fur-bearing Mrs. Hilton (who once told tabloid reporters that unidentified villains had kept her in "continuous slumber" for six months with mysterious drugs) now reported to police that a tall stranger in a grey suit, fedora, pigskin gloves and dark glasses had tied her and her maid to a love seat and made off with her jewels. He first got Zsazsa out of bed in her black chiffon negligee, she said, and took the diamond ring, diamond bracelet and diamond necklace...
...Tall and red-faced, George Belcher was one of the sights of London. For daytime wear, Artist Belcher chose the tweediest of hunting tweeds or else a funereal black cape and high satin stock. At night he preferred Victorian dinner jackets, lace cuffs, and ruffles. Thus attired, he spent half a century stalking likely subjects through London's foggy streets and second-best bar parlors. All his models, he liked to boast, were amateurs, "taken from life...
...Magnan-Pellenc's exertions led to a nervous breakdown last fortnight. While she convalesces, the interim torchbearer for the Amazons is tall, slender Mme. Jeanne Mirbel...
...kill bird," said foxy little Annamite Louis Ko. "He no like. He like kill big." Pressagent Louis was speaking of his master, tall, strapping, Paris-educated Bao Dai, who once killed ten elephants in three days and captured a live one singlehanded...
Back of this quartet comes a big time-gap before the next Varsity runner is reached. Coach Mikkola expressed concern over this situation, particularly since the number two finisher yesterday, tall Paul Friedrich, is a transfer student from Williams and won't be able to compete for the Crimson this fall under the eligibility ruling. Mikkola thought the showing of the Freshmen was "very encouraging...