Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final mark of its hard-won independence, the Air Force last week proudly displayed the new uniform which all airmen will be wearing by September 1950. A natty slate blue (47 other shades of blue were rejected), with light blue shirt and dark blue tie, it is slightly darker than the R.A.F. model, sports new silver buttons and a black-visored cap instead of the traditional gold metal and tan leather. The other major change: inverted chevrons sprouting upwards from an Air Force star, the first upswept insigne for U.S. noncoms since the Spanish-American...
...lobby to the cigar stand, bought four of his favorite cigars. As he turned from the stand, he brushed against one Jesús Arias, police chief from the tiny Michoacán town of Vista Hermosa, who was a little the worse for tequila. General Alva's dark green felt hat fell to the floor...
...Dark-eyed Elena Nikolaidi, assured and lovely in a pale taffeta gown, stepped out on the stage of Manhattan's Town Hall, composed her hands and began to sing. Her voice, ranging from a mellow low contralto to a brilliant mezzo-soprano, glided through songs by Gluck, Haydn, Schubert, Rossini, Mahler, Ravel and De-Falla; the performance came to an end with the Sleep-Walking Scene from Verdi's Macbeth. The audience shuffled their programs to look at the name again. Thirtyish Elena Nikolaidi, making her U.S. debut and almost unknown outside Athens and Vienna, had achieved...
...once turned up a week late on a trip from Hollywood to Manhattan to work on Red, Hot and Blue. He explained to his collaborators, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, that he had detoured to Callander, Ont., to get a look at the Dionne quintuplets. Once, drinking dark beer in Munich with a Yale crony, Monty Woolley, he decided to follow the trail of the brew as it grew lighter; they wound up in Pilsen. In 1935, Playwright Moss Hart got the idea of taking a world cruise and writing a show (Jubilee) on the way. He broached the idea...
...Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard was not impressed. Truman had "almost a Dewey mustache" and "his eyebrows came out thick and dark ... his white collar looked dirty." The Standard's complacent conclusion: Britain's TV is still the leader in quality...