Word: coal-black
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...noon, dapper, coal-black President-elect William Vacarat Shadrach Tubman took over from President Roosevelt's onetime host and guest, Edwin J. Barclay (TIME, June 7). Then the new President knelt to ask the blessing of God upon his people. His lazy drawl poured out over the multitude, reminding all that Liberia had been founded under God and on Christian principles...
...first time. The skin is burnt and leather-beaten by the sun to a permanent brown, cut and scarred by razor-sharp lines that drop perpendicularly about his mouth. About the eyes sky-strain has woven a lacework of crow's-feet. Within this net work, two coal-black eyes brood and smolder. Said an artist assigned to do a portrait of the General : "That man has the face of a hawk...
Mabel Fairbanks is no carbon copy of Sonja Henie or Maribel Vinson. But experts rate her superior to most white amateurs and unquestionably the best skater of her race. Shy, timid and coal-black, she tried on her first pair of skates less than four years ago. Within six months she was mastering spirals, sit-down spins and stops -figures that spill many a veteran. A manager took Mabel in tow, dubbed her "The Swanee Snow Bird" because she was born in Florida, booked her at a scattering of Manhattan rinks. She learned how to dance...
Colossal ambitions consumed this small, wiry man with coal-black, cruel eyes and thin mustache. The prewar Government, he said, was corrupt and weak-stomached ("Always doddering ... it has no roots in the soil and is ... like a cut flower in a vase"), and it was up to Nakano to return Japan to the path of greatness. In the sword he saw the surest physician for Japan's ailments; in Hitler and Mussolini he saw proof that his prescription was right...
...into Scotland, escapes again and heads south with the homing infallibility of a pigeon. Starving, drenched, flinching at thunder, her feet bleeding, Lassie beats her homeward trail through some of the most pleasing Technicolored landscapes of the year. She has a run-in with two shepherds and their ferocious coal-black dog. She performs the supercanine feat of swimming the River Tweed and reaches English ground, half dead, to drop at the doorsill of two aged, lonely cottagers. They nurse her, realize she is on her way somewhere, sorrowfully let her go. She takes up with a traveling peddler...