Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine weeks the Chicago Tribune had run colored front-page cartoons built around a campaign jingle: "BACK TO WORK QUICKER WITH DEWEY AND BRICKER." But the New Deal-hating Tribune had puzzled its readers. It had failed to find a four-color jingle lampooning Franklin Roosevelt. Last week a braying Democratic jackass appeared on Page One, bearing aloft a banner: "BACK ON RELIEF WITH THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF...
...Color Flutters. The sky trains sped past the inundation to the bright green of the gentle countryside around Tilburg and Eindhoven. The planes flew low, close to 500 feet through patches of flak. Then suddenly they spilled their men, cut off their gliders. Soon against the green in the grey day fluttered hundreds of white, yel low, red, blue, brown parachutes. In a matter of minutes, Brereton saw his army in action, forming two columns along a paved road, advancing on a town, their shells raising dust puffs, finally marching...
...lost some color," replied Winston Churchill...
...there." Among the entertainers: Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Ballerina Alicia Markova, Funnyman Danny Kaye, Songstress Judy Garland. Cinemactor Charles Boyer (reciting La Marseillaise), Elsa herself (playing the Star-Spangled Banner). Among the guests: blue-haired Internationalist Lady Mendl, red-haired Greer Garson, black-haired Authoress Anita Loos, cigar-ash-grey-color haired Evalyn Walsh McLean (with her Hope diamond...
Last winter McNaughton resigned, giving ill health as the reason (TIME, Jan. 3). The man picked to succeed him was Henry Crerar, then commander of the I Canadian Corps. Publicity-hating General Crerar was almost unknown to the Canadian people, and since many Canadians do not think that being colorful is good form, Ottawa war councilors made no effort to color him up. Although Crerar used to be so reticent that he had no cronies and few close acquaintances, he did become fast friends with Montgomery and renewed his old friendship (from World War I) with Field Marshal Sir Alan...