Word: colorable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real name. That was quite irrelevant and incompetent, said Dennis. Had he ever taken out a passport in the name of Eugene Dennis? "Beside the point." How long had he been known as Dennis? "For a great, great many years." What name was he born with? "The color of my hair is grey, the color of my eyes is blue...
Snapped Committee Chairman J. Parnell Thomas: "Never mind about the color of your eyes; you are out of order." Thomas ordered a subpoena served on Dennis to appear again on April 9. If he failed to answer, he could be held in contempt of Congress...
...sequential system uses a fast revolving disc with colored sectors. They cause the images to appear on the screen in red, green and blue, one color after another, but so fast that the eye blends them into one single, many-colored picture...
...Negro troops was sometimes more orderly than that of white troops. Later he was assigned to a motor gunboat in Burma, where he was impressed with the intelligence and charm of the Burmese people. By the time he sat down to write The Chequer Board, his sympathy for colored peoples had become an explicit insistence on social equality. Says his white hero, slowly dying of his war wounds: "I had been thinking about these darker-skinned people that I got to know about. . . . You know, there don't seem to be nothing different at all between...
...which a neighbor discusses the son of the Negro G.I. by his English wife: "My dear, I must tell you what the Vicar said about him. ... I asked him to come and see the baby here before the christening because I thought he might not like it about the color. . .. And he said, [the baby] was . .. 'about the color of Jesus Christ.' My dear, wasn't that a terrible thing to say? He's ever such a queer man ... I shouldn't think he'd ever get to be a bishop...