Word: hue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...governed by French laws like the rest of France. The German laws permitted the Catholic religion to be taught in the public schools, which the French laws did not. And at the suggestion (by Herriot) of abolishing the German laws and substituting those of France, there was a hue and cry raised throughout Alsace and Lorraine...
...Senator Watson, whose enemies call him "Administration tool," retired from the Chairmanship because he did not believe in continuing the investigation. Senator Couzens is not regarded as being friendly to the Administrator *James Hamilton Lewis is "the U. S. political beau." Spats, pink waistcoats, purple handkerchiefs, whiskers of scarlet hue he wears with infinite variety. In his fighting days, he would go to the toughest wards of Chicago, dressed in his gayest, huge flower in his lapel, fat and fragrant cigar in his mouth. His audacity melted the hearts of the toughs- and toughs vote with their hearts...
...lliana, a collection of gypsy stories. His play, Costa's Daughter, will soon be unveiled to the glances of Broadway. Bercovici is a Rumanian, born there in 1882. He came to this country in 1916, but no amount of American sunlight and air, fortunately, can erase the swarthy hue of his person or the sleek ebon of hair and mustache...
...hue and cry was raised throughout the liberated Provinces. People who had enthusiastically acclaimed the French as their long-lost brothers after the Armistice, were now driven to unconcealed dismay. On the one hand was the clear impossibility of maintaining German laws in French Provinces; on the other hand was the fervid determination of the Catholic population-a large majority-not to submit to anti-Catholic laws of the French Republic...
...seventh day, the "Bills"† clogged the streets with a three-hour, 40-band march, disguised as cowpunchers, Zouaves, mummers, Turks, huntsmen, sailors, golfers, "Purple Devils," mounted police, hussars, Pilgrims. Purple, the Order's official hue, rioted everywhere. Prizes were given for floats, marching, mileage, drilling...