Word: ravenously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Denyse Clairouin, raven-haired French literary agent, translator of D. H. Lawrence and Tagore, and an ardent organizer of anti-Nazi resistance; of pneumonia (on March 12 but just reported), contracted when the Nazis gave her a brutal five-day ride in an open freight car from the Ravensbruck to the Mulhausen concentration camps...
Authors and star performers of the Midwest's little assault on ballet's classic tradition: raven-haired, energetic Ruth Page, high priestess of the dance in Chicago; and Technical Sergeant Bentley Stone, 34, a lanky South Dakotan who got a seven-day furlough from his Air Forces base in Kansas to dance "Johnnie." The Page-Stone team has authored two other U.S. ballets: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! (a nightclub murder) and Gold Standard (a sugar-daddy romance...
...blue-eyed and blond. He was a growth from Russia's rich soil-earthy, sturdy, solid in mind and body. His open face was typically Russian, as was his name (voron means raven). A big man, he liked big, sturdy things. On Russia's battlefields he saw guns in action: he liked them...
...slapdash London revue called Strike a New Note recently passed its sooth performance thanks to a comic that few Londoners had ever seen a year ago. Today, at 40, raven-haired, bulbous-nosed Sid Field is saluted as perhaps England's finest pantomimist since Charlie Chaplin sailed for the U.S. Fame came late to Field because for twelve years an irksome contract tethered him to the provinces, locked him out of London. It took a lawsuit...
...Misses Chandralehka & Nayantara Pandit, raven-eyed nieces, 19 and 16, of imprisoned India Congress Leader Jawaharlal Nehru, arrived in Manhattan to enter Wellesley College. Chandralehka had been jailed by the British for seven months. She said she left jail with her political convictions stronger than when she entered. The sisters traveled on a troopship whose passengers included some wounded Marines from Guadalcanal. "We had a grand time with them," said Chandralehka. "We discussed Indian affairs all the time...