Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Detective Scaffa, son of a Sicilian contractor, looks and acts as if he might have been invented by Dashiell Hammett. He is tall and dark, sleek, sad-eyed, softspoken, close-mouthed and elusive. The public has heard that he lives quietly with his mother in The Bronx, takes no interest in women, has never read a detective story in his life. No one except Scaffa knows just how much stolen property he has retrieved. He puts the figure...
...Bouisson. To succeed Premier Flandin, President Lebrun turned promptly to the man who had been sitting directly above the Premier all evening, President Fernand Bouisson. A huge man, almost as tall as Flandin, with a sleek paunch and a neatly-cropped white beard, he was born in Constantine, Algeria, later moved to Marseille. Once a rugby player, he has represented Marseille in the Chamber since 1909, avoiding scandal and public attention, a stolid routine politician. Since 1927 he has held the safe but physically exhausting job of President of the Chamber, a job for which he is ideally suited because...
...insists he really enjoys testing planes. Only protection he wears in power dives is a regulation safety belt. He never shouts while diving, unconvinced that it relieves the strain. Tall, slightly hunched, with brown hair and eyes, a ready smile, he makes his home in New York with his wife and son, lives well on his large earnings...
...clock one April morning a tall, square-jawed man sat hunched over a table in his Winchester, Mass. home, writing a note. "Howard W. Lang," it read. "You told me that you would keep after me until you got me. Now you can take full credit for my death...
...brilliantly successful playwright, and still in his middle thirties, he had plenty of money, a decorative wife, an adoring actress-mistress. When he gave a party he had the satisfaction of knowing that nowhere in the world was there a collection of smarter, more successful people. He was tall and well-built. No one could withstand his famous charm. He was the top, and he knew it. But do you suppose Tom was happy? Not a bit of it. Something was lacking. What that something was, Tom was not quite smart enough to figure out. But he felt the need...