Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davis Knight had lived in Mississippi all of his 23 years, except for three years in the Navy. He married blonde, blue-eyed Junie Lee Spradley and farmed a poor piece of land. One night the county police arrested him. Knight was a Negro, they said; Junie Lee was white. In Mississippi, that kind of marrying was against...
When he emerged from his interview with the Gimo, Sun Fo's blood pressure hit 200. In a padded blue gown he hobbled around his study and roared at an American visitor: "You are fighting a cold war against Communists throughout the world, yet in China your policy appears aimed at hastening our government's disintegration. It seems we aren't collapsing fast enough to suit your taste...
Despite his grumbling, Maestro Rodolfo Gaona, 62, was having a good time. To meet his complaint that the bulls had been puny lately, there was a new rule against bulls weighing less than 990 pounds. And the novillero (novice) he considered the season's most promising-blue-eyed Rafael Rodriguez-was making his debut that Sunday afternoon in the big time...
Around the Table. The heroine is a chipper, bright-blue-eyed great-grandmother (five times over) named Mrs. Catherine Marsh, born 88 years ago this Christmas Day. When her husband, a traveling electrical engineer, was killed by a Coney Island subway train in 1905, Mrs. Marsh was left with seven sons and two daughters (the oldest son at home was 16), no insurance and a $4,500 mortgage on the Ohio farm where they lived...
...values. Along Hollywood Boulevard, the street lamps are covered with those decorations which are not real trees, or even slavish representations of real trees, but interesting, frankly synthetic designs frosted in colored lights. And along Wilshire and Sunset the roadside stands are gay with little trees sprayed in pale blue, white, pink and lavender. At this time, Hollywood would like everyone, particularly itself, to wear a cheerful face...