Word: hues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hue & Cry. There were dissenters. Many a thoughtful U.S. citizen asked what State Department policy was, anyhow. Why had Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and idealistic Nelson Rockefeller, presumably having much of the dope on the Argentines at the time, led the fight for Argentina's admission to the UNO at San Francisco last April? Others, including many a Latin, noted that the U.S. attack came at the climax of the Argentine presidential campaign, called it intervention...
...thousands of suspenseful feet of film to a slam-bang finish. This time he turns his formula and the police on Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck and hounds them expertly through a hotel lobby, a railway station, a train. But thanks to Ben Hecht's script, the real hue & cry is in the hero's mind. Miss Bergman, disguised in hornrimmed glasses, scrambles grimly after Hero Peck through the dark corridors of his paranoid guilt complex. The result is often good entertainment, but it does not tingle with Hitchcock's usual sustained suspense. There is always...
...surprised at the hue & cry over his latest statement which, he said, was never intended for publication; but he was "not displeased that the problem is now in the open." He still defended his course as the right one for Dartmouth: "Any college of restricted enrollment must depend on quotas in everything-as to East and West, public and private schools, urban and agricultural areas, and racial groups as well...
Moving Day. While the younger Patiño was in trouble for his peripatetic marital habits, the older Patiño picked up his traveling kit for reasons, said rumor, connected with the hue & cry over the untaxed profits of nonresident aliens in the U.S. Father Simon Ituri Patiño forsook his modest suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for the rigors of the low-taxed Argentine pampas. Stopping over in New Orleans, Patiño jammed himself into a ten-room suite in the Roosevelt Hotel. In a grey suit, wearing a grey fedora and grey...
...colonels and brigadier generals." They will be entitled to wear a neon star with blinker, and cap covers with a center rosette ringed with a one-half-inch band of phosphorescent material. Shirt collars and cuffs will be distinguished by a lacy fringe or fray and tinted a darker hue. (No pay increase is contemplated...