Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidate for Governor in 1936, who looks and sounds just like Crooner Harry Richman. Blushful in his bows, but silent because he was still engaged in his second prosecution of Tammany's Jimmy Hines (which may keep his name alive this year) was New York's slim black fox, District Attorney Tom Dewey, currently the G.O.P.'s leading candidate for Presidential nomination...
...scantily-clad Mayfair trollop, "The Black Butterfly," was found stabbed to death. Police investigated whether she had been done in for blabbing I. R. A. secrets...
...dark, crenelated St. James's Palace slipped separate, silent groups of Saudi Arabs in crisp brown silk robes and white headdresses, Yemen Arabs in turbans and black-and-green cloaks, Egyptians in scarlet fezzes, Jews in business suits, British diplomats in morning coats and silk toppers. On the eve of the "Conference" they split into three camps (Jews, "Defense" Arabs, "Mufti" Arabs), shut themselves into separate chambers and let the British diplomats shuttle...
...night. But lights still burned in the windows of the Vatican palaces, to the right of the Square and its long Bernini colonnades. One light shone dimly. In the small second-story chamber which it illuminated, on a plain brass bed, a weary old man lay breathing heavily. A black-cowled monk, a silent doctor kept vigil...
Best dog in the show, for the second year in succession: Exquisite Model of Ware, a four-year-old black, white and tan cocker spaniel bitch. Most popular exhibit of merchandise : a gasproof kennel brought out in ''Crisis Week," in which any movement of the dog operates a bel lows under the floor, forces fresh air through respirators...