Word: black
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a car following the truck stepped Mrs. Coffey herself, a grey-haired, motherly woman of 55, in a lacy black hat. She was ready to speak a few words, but found no crowd. "Ain't many Democrats around here," explained the postmistress. "I'm one." Candidate Coffey bleakly drank a Coca-Cola, then moved...
...Communists tried but failed to make capital of the "rationalization" firings, thanks largely to the vigilance of the city's hefty, even-tempered police chief, 49-year-old Eiji Suzuki. Chief Suzuki started his regime by cleaning up Osaka's formidable gangs of thugs and black-marketeers. When the Communists began making trouble, he went after them with equal vigor. Last July, when a Communist-published kabe shimbun (wall newspaper) published stories charging G.I.s with attacking Japanese women, Suzuki saw his chance. Under an Army directive forbidding falsification of news about the occupation, he jugged 108 Reds, including...
Straw-haired, sleekly groomed Fleur Cowles doesn't own a hat, usually wears tailored suits, a rose, and black horn-rimmed glasses, is never without a huge (1 in.) Russian emerald ring ("It's my trademark, it's me, it's Fleur - rough, uncut, vigorous"). Says she: "I've worked hard, and I've made a fortune, and I did it in a man's world, but always, ruthlessly, and with a kind of cruel insistence, I have tried to keep feminine." For a sampling of Fleur's insistent femininity, readers could...
With all its chronic ailments, Broadway was also suffering from the city's investigation into the black market in tickets to hit shows. Twenty-four of the town's ticket brokers had lost their licenses, six more were under charges, and one box-office man had been suspended. The theater's reputable citizens spoke bravely of reform...
...devil and of giving birth to a demon child, while young men (and older) were haunted by the "shapes" of comely matrons who at midnight dropped down from a beam and snuggled close. The devil worked overtime; he was described by one hysteric as "a short and black man-a Wretch no taller than an ordinary Walking Staff ... he wore a high crowned hat with straight hair; and he had one Cloven Foot." Another accuser casually referred...