Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life. His early-morning routine has changed little: awake at 7:30; a quick but thorough go at the Washington and New York papers (he reads Columnists Clapper and Lippmann regularly); breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and milk; then, propped in bed in his year-round lightweight, solid-color pajamas, with a blue cape around his shoulders, a chat with his secretaries on the day's schedule. Despite their best efforts and the President's recurring resolutions to cut down, his daily list of callers always seems to grow longer. Franklin Roosevelt likes people and loves...
...ever, made no play for the greatest gallery of his life. In his own way, cautious but sure, steady and tenacious, he hammered away again at the cardinal tenets of his diplomatic philosophy. Thus he made no stirring show, and not much news except in the yard-long, colorless "color" stories in the press. But he did say that...
Producers who might be impressed draw the color line. Most of Mabel's public performances have been before astonished passers-by who line Rockefeller Center's outdoor rink, where she occasionally practices. Negro audiences, however, will soon see her in full feather. Mabel Fairbanks last week signed up to skate and star in a full-length, Harlem-financed movie with an all-Negro cast, Sepia Cinderella...
...even André Marty represents no real threat to Algerian unity. De Gaulle now dominates both the controlling Liberation Committee and the advisory Consultative Assembly. Frenchmen had waited long for a national standardbearer. Whether that standard was to be the Tri-color or the Cross of Lorraine did not matter. De Gaulle personified a France rampant, able at least to force its presence on the consciousness of other nations...
...after having read all other London papers, works often until after midnight, with time out for large and lengthy lunches and dinners. His lone bow to sartorial propriety is a black Homburg hat, the high-toned effect of which he habitually voids by wearing with it a fuzzy, natural-color camel's hair coat...