Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the 300,000 Japanese of Sao Paulo, Brazil, refused to believe that the war is over and that their side lost. It was the strange mission of tall, spare Father Hugo Lassalle, S.J., to convince them...
...with two stone camels at the doorway, a swimming pool with a hydraulic-elevator springboard. Her "ShangriLa" cost $1,000,000. She also contributed $50,000 to the Democrats (Jimmy's political party), and when Jimmy was made U.S. Minister to Canada, she went along. She was a tall, shy, honey-blonde girl with a solemn face. Sometimes she entertained her friends by tap-dancing...
...tall (5 ft. 8½ in.), slim figure is still a fashionable model's size (35 in. bust, 26 waist, 36 hips). She keeps it that way by calisthenics, by often walking to work from her Manhattan house, by dieting and by plenty of golf, which she plays in the high 80s. (She wears a girdle, as thin as possible, only because she doesn't think it's "nice" to go ungirdled.) Her working dress is usually one of her own simple black $300 daytime dresses...
Sophie designs with the help of a sketcher and tall, bald Stewart Erlkin, who is a good enough designer to do Sophie's sophisticated models with little help from her. She also buys sketches from outsiders, changing them to suit her taste. And, like all other designers, she constantly combs over the styles of the last 5,000 years. One of her most fertile hunting grounds is the Brooklyn Museum, which she likes because it lets her take costumes back to her shop for copying. This year it supplied the inspiration for a woman's suit jacket copied...
Time: 1865. Scene: the library of a country house in Lower Halliford (among the books: seven prankish novels to be reissued in 1947 as The Pleasures of Peacock). Cries of "Fire!" A tall, handsome, irascible old man hurries in, followed by a curate who implores him to leave. "By the immortal gods," shouts the old man, looking at his beloved books, "I will not move." Several weeks later, he died of shock. Death had paid Novelist Thomas Love Peacock the compliment of imitating his style...