Word: nutbrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Continental Army at Brandywine. When he grew up, Howard Pyle found one of his studios in an old mill near the Pyle ancestral farmhouse on Brandywine Stream. A broad-shouldered, benevolent six-footer, he made his Revolutionary soldiers, pirates, merry men, knights and men-at-arms so nutbrown, brawny and handsome, steeped their adventures in such romantic color, that Theodore Roosevelt lustily approved, frequently had him as a White House guest. In the decade before his death in 1911 he never made less than $25,000 a year...
...pigtails, won the National Girls' Championship at Forest Hills. Coolidge had just become President, Jack Dempsey was Heavyweight Champion and Babe Ruth was playing his fourth season with the New York Yankees the year she won the U. S. Women's Championship for the first time, in 1923, against nutbrown, iron-muscled Molla Biurstedt Mallory. By 1927, after Suzanne Lenglen had turned professional, Helen Wills, at 21, was admittedly the ablest amateur woman tennis player in the world. In 1929, she was presented at Buckingham Palace in a shin-length ivory satin dress, exhibited her paintings in London...
Shock after news shock smote the sensitive Japanese people last week, made them feel that their Empire is menaced by insidious foes, made them prouder than ever of their nutbrown, nut-hard Army...
...started just as they expected him to. He won the first set 6-2. In the next set Richards started a terrific rally. He matched his volley with Kozeluh's accurate backhand drives and at last broke through service to win 10-8. Then, amazingly, it was the nutbrown, buoyant Kozeluh who tired. The pasty-faced, fiercely concentrated Richards at the net was a far deadlier player than Richards, the slim prodigy who used to beat Tilden sometimes before he turned professional. No one could have touched the angled volleys he made from Kozeluh's drives, and late...
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