Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just a line, and this is a line, to thank you . . . for the text you contrived. ... I think it came out swell. It may interest you to know that a man eight feet tall, who just arrived with the circus, spoke with enthusiasm about your piece. This is high praise indeed...
Many of you have had a good word to say about the art that accompanies these letters, and others have asked who the artist is. Having no reason for keeping him under cover, I can say that he is a tall, gangling, affable young man named Richard Erdoes, and let him continue his story...
...Shining Deed? Presiding serenely over the British machine is tall (6 ft.), urbane, 45-year-old Stewart Perowne, able adviser in Britain's Bagdad Embassy. Twenty years a Middle East hand, Perowne even more than the British Ambassadors (who come & go) symbolizes British rule in Iraq. Unlike most British officials, he openly plugs for a larger Hashimite kingdom. A favorite Perowne remark: "Iraq shines like a good deed in a naughty world...
...hours later the dead King's tall (6 ft. 3 in.), 45-year-old brother stood before the civil and military dignitaries of Greece and took the sovereign's oath. The assemblage rumbled: "Zito o Vassileus Pavlos" (Long Live King Paul...
Begone, Bulk Purchase, heavy-handed hick, Who still suppose that you can do the Trick. The nimble thousands, dodging here and there, Confused the foes and made the Market fair: But when your tall gross figure comes to town They all at once combine to do you down. Begone, Economist: no more profess To play with Cheeses as you play at Chess. . . . Come, lovely Chaos: come, the Bad Old Days, Before the Wise Men watched about our ways, When Ministers had not enraged the Sun, Not much was Planned but many things were Done...