Word: ecru
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...slight, stooped man came toward me. He was no longer middleaged, but I liked that. I was so tired of these eager boys of 50. His hair, which was greenish white, might have been unpleasant had there been more of it. As he smiled gently, showing his small, even, ecru teeth, I thought, "Ah, he's the type that's mad for little girls." In fact, hadn't I read that he'd had some trouble with the police...
Maria Jeritza, well-fed and tanned a warm ecru by a summer on the estate of Baron Leopold von Popper, near Vienna, returned to the U. S. last week. Schnurri II, white cat that she carried to all her performances at the Metropolitan Opera last year, she left behind. She languishes, she said, for Schnurri and the other estate animals-Schnurri's summer lay of kittens; horses, police dogs, dachshund, and a little white lamb. Husband von Popper, gallant and taller than Jeritza, escorted her to San Francisco where she is to sing in a pre-season Tannh...
...Bruce, Richard F. Cleveland (son of the late President), assisted by six young experts on precedence from the Treasury and State Departments, took the guests to their seats. The President and his wife had one of the front pews. Mrs. Coolidge wore for the first time a gown of ecru lace over a black satin slip. The Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden were present, she wearing a gown of apricot pink crepe, with a skirt of self-colored lace. The only decorations in the chapel were six golden vases of lilies on the altar and white ribbons outlining...