Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world by the policies of the German Government." >Grey Friday passed. A huge war map of Europe was hung on the wall in the White House executive office and Army & Navy intelligence officers stuck pins in it to keep the President up to the hour on the fighting. Black Sunday came, putting Great Britain and France formally into World War II. That evening Franklin Roosevelt went on the world's airwaves to state and define historically the U. S. position, to read his preface to a giant human tragedy from which the U. S. people could not possibly...
...presentation of a foreign Ambassador to the President of the U. S. is usually heavy business, ribboned with red-tape, bound by strictest protocol. But one day last week ribbon and tape went out the White House window when a big black limousine, tagged DPL-I, swung around the little pavement-circle before the Executive wing. Out stepped six-foot, rosy-cheeked Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Carr), Marquess of Lothian, Lord Newbattle, Earl of Lothian, Baron Jedburgh, Earl of Ancrum, Baron Kerr of Nisbet, Baron Long-Newton and Dolphingston, Viscount of Brien, Baron Kerr of Newbattle and Baron Ker. This...
...sugar-scoop coat or high hat clothed Lord Lothian. To the confusion of protocol, he wore a black pin-stripe business suit, a loosely knotted dark tie, black bump-toed shoes, glasses with light grey plastic rims, a grey Homburg hat. He pushed open the right-hand door to the Executive offices (the left is always locked), walked over the black-and-white checkered linoleum, around the Philippine red narra table and back to the President's office. He gave his hat to Pat McKenna, ancient doorguard, and walked...
...minutes later he walked out-first envoy of a major power thus informally to be received, first thus to stay and chat with Franklin Roosevelt on his first diplomatic call. As he opened the front door to face the batteries of newsreel and flashbulb cameramen, a scrawny, tired black cat strolled casually across his path. He stooped and picked it up, while the newsreelmen went into a delighted frenzy.* The cat, counterpart of the one in London, named "Appeasement," which haunts No. 10 Downing St., was instantly dubbed "Crisis...
Postern. If forced back into her Triangle, Poland can expect direct aid only through her southeast postern, the valley of the Dniester down to Rumania and the Black Sea. Clearly seen last week was the reason why Poland, when Hitler carved Czecho-Slovakia, stood watchful guard over those Carpathian peaks which frown down on the Dniester Valley. When Hungarians rushed in and seized the Carpatho-Ukraine (eastern tip of Czecho-Slovakia), Poles embraced them at their new common border, for Hungary is traditionally Poland's friend. Much depends for Poland on Hungary's continued neutrality, for only by marching around...