Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strangled City. The two immaculately uniformed Russian officers stared down expressionlessly from their high official bench at the small woman in navy blue who spoke to the assembly. She was Berlin's Mayoress, grey-haired, matronly, bespectacled Louise Schroeder; and her hands gripped the rostrum firmly. She attacked the restrictions on transportation within Berlin and on the shipment of packages to the Western zones. Prosaic issues? Yes-but they involved orders of the Russian occupying army...
...Diplomatic Echo. It takes Annedore Leber, a nervy, auburn-haired woman of 44, to jar the Soviet delegate from his posturing. She is a Social Democrat, an editor of the newspaper Telegraf; her husband gave his life in the underground conspiracy against the Nazis. Her blue eyes are hot with anger, and she is impatient with all this petty squabbling over package shipments and machine removals when all the world knows what is at stake: "I want to raise this debate to the level commensurate with the gravity of the crisis we face." She does so bluntly: "The people...
Figure-Skater Barbara Ann Scott, having announced her willingness to turn pro, was getting black & blue from the money & things people were throwing at her. Total offers received thus far-from Hollywood, radio and advertisers-came to $150,000; she was now sorting them over, thinking. The City of Ottawa planned to give her back the canary-colored Buick it had given her a year ago last March and then taken back when Avery Brundage of the U.S. Olympic Association objected...
Plenty of red, white, and blue fire-works will burst at tonight's Law School Forum on the subject "Which Party in 1948?", meeting officials predicted last night. Opening blasts will be at 7:45 o'clock at Rindge Tech, and admission is 50 cents...
...first six years after acquiring the Raeburn, Huntington spent $6,000,000. By his death in 1927, he had assembled the finest collection of 18th Century British portraits in the U.S. (among them: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy). And his purchases of 100,000 rare books and 1,000,000 precious manuscripts made him, in Bibliophile A.S.W. Rosenbach's judgment, "without doubt the greatest collector of books the world has ever known." In the judgment of Englishmen who hated to see their treasures taken off, he was one of history's colossal despoilers...