Word: blues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spaces between the clean, stone cliffs of buildings seemed like enormous, breeze-blown gardens of women's hats-they bloomed for blocks in a frothy, flowering profusion of red, yellow, blue and green...
Hothead. The Burmese streamed out of doors to pour pots of water over the ground and offer up prayers to Thi-gya-min. Early next morning, clad in bright blue, red or green skirt-like longyis and rubber bathing caps, they set out with more water for the pagodas, to wash the sacred images. Cold drinks, tea and Burman spaghetti were served at marquees at almost every street corner and gay music sounded everywhere. Pious oldsters listened to the discourse of holy men, and everywhere the Burmese splashed one another with a will...
Under a warm sun, Stratford-upon-Avon was stirring to life last week. White swans and yellow punts rippled on the gentle blue Avon, and along its turfy banks, lovers lolled and plum trees flowered. But for the Warwickshire town's 13,000 citizens there was a surer sign of the season: the wheels were turning again in Stratford's $3,000,000-a-year tourist industry...
Teams from Smith, Wheaton, and Wollesley flounced around the water to the strains of "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Manhattan Serenade," and "Basin Street," this last with the assistance of feet-square boards, blue on one side and red on the other. The girls did not form any flower shapes or spell out a tribute to any organization. They just swam in rhythm. "Good for the nerves," a slight fellow next to me muttered lighting a cigarette...
Then Cal Bryant, Master of Ceremonies and representative of the National Red Cross, introduced a Miss Margaret Hutton. Miss Hutton, a member of the '49 Aquaparade, smiled broadly from the edge of the pool, adjusted her blue bathing suit in a few strategic spots, and slipped under the water. Her specialty is swimming without the feet. Holding her legs rigidly together, she made, respectively, like a porpoise, a shark, and a submarine. She got a good hand on the way to the dressing rooms. The fellow on my right explained that it was "good for the Aquacade...