Word: black
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the newlyweds climbed into the shiny black Oldsmobile convertible which Barkley had given his bride as a wedding present, and headed for Barkley's old Kentucky home (The Angles) and points south. They would be back in Washington, said the Veep, in time for the second session of the 81st Congress. In the meantime, "We are just going to strike out, stop when we please, where we please. Where we are going may not be a military secret, but it's a romantic...
...eyed children still play in its filthy, glass-strewn alleys, its dark hallways, and in vacant lots, where the refuse of generations is packed solid, a foot higher than the sidewalks. Its old men are sad. The young men who haunt its streets by night-callow bravoes with oiled black hair, sharp suits and the melancholy curse of pimples-loiter in knots with expressionless faces, just as they did when Frank Costello had a gun in his pocket and was one of them...
Irascible and abusive, trumpeting social theories with a black cigar upthrust from under his bushy mustaches, he roared through three decades of Oklahoma politics. He served two terms in Congress, twice ran unsuccessfully for governor, borrowed $40 in 1930 to run again and won, and offered himself in 1932 as a Democratic presidential candidate. In 1935 he faded into the background, nursing a hatred of the New Deal...
...town, polo coats for the country. For delicate dogs, there was a red raincoat with matching hood to be worn with waterproof leather boots. Coats had a pocket, placed aft of amidships, for a handkerchief, of course. Hats included an item bedecked with pussy willows, another with a long black plume. All of them were to be had at Hammacher Schlemmer's on East 57th Street, a locality where New Yorkers who don't need anything shop for things they didn't know they wanted...
Churchill bluntly challenged Prime Minister Clement Attlee to send Parliament home and set the election for early in 1950. Attlee, slumped on the government front bench and looking funereal in his black coat and neat striped trousers, seemed not to hear. But London political dopesters now think the election will be held earlier than Labor had planned. Best guess: February or March...