Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Khaki Shirts & Candor. They landed at Washington's National Airport wearing black suits, khaki Army shirts, tan Army shoes, bluish felt hats and the look of men who will not be taken in by city slickers. They smiled and nodded happily when they were told to form their own opinions and to have no fear of frankness, but it soon developed that the advice was unnecessary. They were men of imposing candor...
That, thought a Tory housewife in Southwark, was as may be. This particular picture was a long way from proving it. She took another look, then bustled over to the cupboard. There, sure enough, was the selfsame picture, neatly pasted in an old scrapbook. She had clipped it from the Daily Express, dated June 10, 1936, when Stanley Baldwin and his Tories were in charge. Its caption read, "Exclusive picture of Prince Edward,* baby son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent...
...Scotland, quick-thinking Laborite Herbert Morrison did his dauntless best to recapture party dignity with a cool last word: "Through the good work of the Labor Government all God's children look much the same...
...convention floor, breeders buzzed about an export deal that made 1949 look even more promising. Just a few days before, on his first trip to Canada, a Chilean cattleman named José Barros had agreed to pay Hays Ltd., Canada's largest exporter of Holsteins to the south, a whopping $79,340 for 15 purebreds, including a $15,000 bull named Sonniwilk Sovereign...
...Beverly Hills gallery, at the end of a long corridor, amid deep-red drapes, in candlelight subtly augmented by spotlights. The first night was an invitation show, intended for 500 closely screened art lovers, from Thomas Mann to Shirley Temple. For the next couple of days, anybody could look at it. Then it would go back to blaze in Mr. Goetz...