Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slightest doubt as to where lay the sympathy, the potent human partisanship, of this President of the United States. He was against Germany, against the aggressor, against totalitarianism, against Adolf Hitler the dictator and Adolf Hitler the man perhaps mad. His every word henceforth would be weighed in the light of his own injunction, which he now laid upon the Press, to stick rigidly to the facts because "that's best for our own nation-and for civilization." His deeds and those of his subordinates would now be examined for lack of bias as the nation watched his "every...
...sugar-scoop coat or high hat clothed Lord Lothian. To the confusion of protocol, he wore a black pin-stripe business suit, a loosely knotted dark tie, black bump-toed shoes, glasses with light grey plastic rims, a grey Homburg hat. He pushed open the right-hand door to the Executive offices (the left is always locked), walked over the black-and-white checkered linoleum, around the Philippine red narra table and back to the President's office. He gave his hat to Pat McKenna, ancient doorguard, and walked...
...Monastery of the Mountain of Light in Czestochowa, early last week, the arm of the priest who stands to the left of the doorway, dips his little broom in a can of holy water, and dexterously swishes precious spray over the pilgrims, bestowing virtue on the devout but not wasting a drop, grew tired. Thousands of grim, black-clad peasants who had been living on potatoes and pickles, hundreds of gayly costumed villagers, a few colonels in uniform, and counts in Bond Street tweeds, were flocking to Poland's holiest shrine to pray to Regina Regni Poloniae, the "Black Madonna...
...corselet should be worn. This one piece is the better choice, but if the figure is heavy brassiere and well-boned corset may be preferred. Knickers should be in Directoire style, with elastic at waist and knees, in any dark shade preferred. Nurses and other national workers who wear light frocks will still choose white or the pinks, peach or pastel blue underwear shades...
From the Spanish war came rumors of a new air bomb expressly designed not for demolition but to kill personnel. These German-made bombs were said to be light (6 to 60 Ib.) and relatively cheap; even a small bomber could carry and release a great many. The casing was criss-crossed with grooves like a bar of chocolate so that a 10-pound bomb would fly into 800 small, jagged fragments of uniform shape. Many of the fragments fly out horizontally, giving the burst an effect like the circular sweep of a machine...