Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alexandria and Cairo went deliriously wild last week over Farouk I. In Egypt some $50,000 will buy enough triumphal arches and paper streamers to choke the main streets of Cairo, and this was the sum its civic fathers proudly spent. Everywhere one looked was green- the Egyptian national color-everywhere the flag of Egypt, green with a white crescent and three white stars...
Durban, Natal, South Africa: The color bar is strictly enforced. . . . Illicit intercourse with native women renders any white liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years...
...supreme confidence in his ability to sell anything," continued Judge Barnes, relating how Mr. Skinner tampered with the brewmaster's formulas and watered the beer 80%. "To his surprise and the disaster of the debtor [Prima] it was found that beer drinkers want not only color and foam but that they also want a particular kind of disagreeable taste...
Kilts, tam o' shanters and tartans flooded Edinburgh with color one day last week. Doughty Scots by the hundreds had climbed out of bed before it was light and flocked into the streets to see a unique pageant-the state arrival of the first Scottish Queen to sit on the British Throne...
Best parts of Children of Strangers are its portraits of minor plantation characters, its vivid local color. Its awkwardness is the result of Author Saxon's too often hiding Famie's story while he tells the more dramatic and less sentimental story of Cane River...