Word: brunet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer, or a good part of it-the result of a very comprehensive questionnaire we put to our editors recently. First off, I can say that they run pretty big: the composite TIME editor is a 5 ft.-11¾ in., 164-lb., 36-year-old, brown-eyed brunet with a full head of brown hair, a wife and two children, and 14 years' experience in journalism...
Married. Ethel Barrymore Colt, 32, brunet, convent-bred actress daughter of Ethel Barrymore; and John Romeo Miglietta di Carmiano, fiftyish, Oxford-educated Italian-born executive of American Republics Corp. (oil); she for the first time, he for the third; in Manhattan...
...days in court, it was announced that the case had been settled privately. In a 1940 Los Angeles baby suit the indignant mother was awarded $3,500. Mrs. Louise Mahoney, 18, charged that during her ten days in the hospital nurses brought her three different babies, a blond, a brunet and a redhead...
Bayou du Large's people, blond and blue-eyed, are a striking contrast to the usual brunet Louisianians. Most of the villagers are of English-Scottish descent; possibly their forebears came from ships captured by Jean Lafitte's pirates in the early 19th Century. Some of the oldsters recall their parents speaking of origins "up North." The villagers drawl their words more like Kentuckians than Louisianians, use the expression "a fur piece" to describe a considerable distance. When they are not trapping, they fish...
...account. . . . Whatsoever judgment is made before knowing the result of this investigation would be adventurous. Furthermore, it would be imprudent." The Argentine Foreign Office stiffly suggested that the matter was not serious because: 1) the ship had not sunk; 2) no one was killed. In Washington Attaché Alberto Brunet was ordered to go cast a professionally analytical eye on the damage...