Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with dancing blue eyes, braided hair, and a rag doll which she swung gaily by its feet as we talked. She told me she was from Lehnin and her father & mother were waiting in the dark hall outside. Herr Arnold finally appeared-a hunchback under five feet tall. His brown, leathery face pursed up with a wry grin as he explained his prosaic cause for flight. He had idly signed a petition for the re-election of the local mayor. After a new mayor was elected, Arnold had been evicted by the police, on various grounds, from seven apartments...
...become famous and made the Grand Tour of Europe. His best were meticulous and tender souvenirs of walking trips through the Catskills, the White Mountains and the old Northwest Territory, sometimes embellished with a log cabin, a lone hunter, or a circle of Indian braves. Under their tobacco-brown varnish, the paintings shone with light and space; they looked a little like Arcadia seen through a dusty brass telescope...
What had modern life done to U.S. college presidents? Last week, some 400 of them got together in Manhattan to talk the matter over. It was the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges, and the association's retiring president, Kenneth I. Brown, who heads Ohio's Denison University, had a few final words...
...college students. Such a plan would be in line with the $120 million proposal made by the President's Commission on Higher Education. But that didn't mean that the educators liked everything the commission had said. They had not completely forgotten the "higher standards" Kenneth Brown had spoken of; nor were they in favor of blindly distributing scholarships without a stiff examination of each candidate's intellectual merits and financial needs. Furthermore, warned the presidents: "The association sees in the proposal of the President's Commission for a sudden rise in the number of college...
...third was "El Rancho," a convertible painted "in the singing thunder of a Mexican Dawn" (brown), and soon to be driven by Cadillac Boss John F. Gordon on his Arizona ranch. It has kip-side suede trim, antiqued silver hardware, steer-head escutcheons on the doorsills, and saddle-stitched pistol holsters on the doors. The fourth "sybaritic specimen" was a sedan in "Caribbean Day Break" (green), which would go to some other G.M. executive...