Word: coal-black
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Welling Tears. Old (75), coal-black Dom Pedro VII had little liking for official functions. He preferred cruising around Rome in a taxi with a couple of photographers. But when the time came for him to meet the Pope, he was determined to carry it off in regal style. Said he: "I shall be the first of my family, which dates from the Pharaohs, to meet the Pope...
When some delegates wrangled over how much education Africans could use, a tiny, coal-black Presbyterian pastor admonished them in parable. Said...
...American came to India last week not to lecture but to listen. In the famine-stricken provinces of Madras and Mysore, Herbert Hoover rode over chokingly dusty roads past rocky farmland and dried-up streams. The coal-black natives crowded around his car. "One family here lives on four to eight annas' (8? to 16?) worth of grain a week," they told him. "We are now eating only one meal every two days...
Twenty-eight stokers from a British cruiser at Beirut were sent to Damascus, assigned as guards around a French convent. Since the nuns could not venture into the troubled town, the stokers made daily shopping trips for them. In return the nuns washed the stokers' coal-black clothes. When the 28 returned to the cruiser, they were so clean that their own officers did not recognize them...
...troops in the South Pacific, the exploits of Fiji scouts on Bougainville are already legendary. The smiling, coal-black British colonials, tall, husky and soldierly, have deeply impressed G.I.s with their jungle craft and cool courage. One whom troops of the U.S. XIV Army Corps will long remember was Corporal Sefanaia Sukanaivalu...