Word: hue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bruising New Year. But rosy as these facts were, the picture had another hue. Labor shortages, said the Navy, are holding up work that still must be done to put the Navy where it wants to be and keep it going at top strength...
...Christian Beacon, funda mentalist weekly, a hue & cry arose, startled the Navy Department into reviewing the Gatlin case. Chaplain Gatlin was invited back, put under the district chaplain of the Third Naval District (New York, Connecticut, part of New Jersey), who told him to "follow the leadership of the Lord" in his duties...
...bigtime kidnapping since the days of Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy. One Jack Guzik, a sawed-off gangster known in Chicago journalese as the "business manager" of the Syndicate, disappeared. On the day of his disappearance he was wearing a double-breasted suit of the sharpest cut and the newest hue-Australian kangaroo blue-a red tie, striped shirt, a Chesterfield overcoat...
...potent requirements committee, and director of the Office of War Utilities; is indisputably one of Washington's genuine key men. Chairman Don Nelson says flatly that nobody in WPB can touch him in native intelligence, knowledge, ability and dependability; newsmen and industrialists agree. But ever since the political hue & cry roused by the temporary deferment of OPA's General Counsel David Ginsburg, no prominent young Government official has cared to risk a repetition. President Roosevelt's policy has been to let the draft have its way with them, at no matter what the cost...
...Express is no scandal sheet, but Arthur Christiansen's brand of journalism has a distinctly yellow hue. There is nothing in the U.S. quite comparable to it. In appearance and content it is more like the Hearst papers than anything else-copiously illustrated, splashy with black headlines, trickily laid...