Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only possible choice, the shriveled-up little brown man of India who lived as an incarnation of the Christian gospel and died as a rebuke to the rest of this world's gods...
...appointed day at 5:30 p.m. Velio Spano, in a natty brown double-breasted suit, crossed the little piazza in front of the church and entered the hall. A minute later Father Lombardi arrived, his face muffled in a black shawl. The contestants smilingly shook hands and took their seats behind a red table on the theater's stage. In the audience their supporters, divided by the middle aisle, sat quietly on seats marked with their names in big letters. As the seconds checked their watches, Father Lombardi murmured to Spano: "When Communism falls-as I'm sure...
...Belly. Crouched in one of Chi-angchiahu's farmhouses were five Communist prisoners, well-fed, clothed in good yellow-brown uniforms and ranging in age from 20 to 38. Three were onetime Nationalist soldiers, captured a year ago and converted for Chen Yi's army. "We march all night," said one, "as much as 40 kilometers. By day we rest under trees behind paddy walls or in villages...
...Girl. Olivia's professional life was thus entrusted to the guardianship of the Warner Brothers. After her ethereal job in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the girl with the esthetic face was cast as the cutie-heroine of Alibi Ike, a baseball picture starring Joe E. Brown. Later she appeared as the ingenue in Captain Blood, opposite Errol Flynn. Henceforth she was frozen into a cycle of Flynn-flam. Says she: "It almost drove me crazy...
...Lady Appleton, dark brown hair and handsome, runs her Kensington flat singlehanded. She has traveled widely with her husband within the last three years. 'I always seem to be packing,' she said, 'and I hope this will be the last occasion...