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...Chilapa consisted almost exclusively of tennis courts. Once a year Father made use of the courts in a tennis tournament. It was well organized. First Father intimidated the sporting-goods dealers by declaring their balls were too full of felt and the wrong color. He had the balls dyed robin's-egg blue for better visibility. On the day of the tournament he put on his white ducks and special hat (it had "large squares of rustproof screening on it for ventilation"), took over the jobs of checker, referee, games announcer, scorer. Since he liked crowds and policemen...
...which he invited His Grace of Brisbane. The waitress knew her regular customers and took the young clergyman's order first. Then she turned to Archbishop Wand, wearing his reddish purple rabat (clerical bib) under his clerical collar to indicate that he was in Episcopal Orders. "And now, Robin Red Breast," said the waitress, "what will you have...
...differs from the original Phantom, which Universal produced in the shock-absorbing '20s as a shivery vehicle for the late multiform Lon Chaney. The 1943 Phantom is bantam-sized Claude Rains, who attempts to terrify by sheer force of character, scar tissue and Technicolor. Scuttling about in a robin's-egg blue mask, Cinemactor Rains scares nobody but his fellow cinemactors...
...first overt act by Germany against the U.S. in World War II was the torpedoing of the freighter Robin Moor, six months before Pearl Harbor. The sinking brought a burning rebuke from Franklin Roosevelt, touched off new verbal skyrockets in the already explosive isolationist-interventionist debate. North Dakota's Senator Nye "guessed" that the British had sunk her-then hastily retracted. For obvious reasons, Germany kept...
...painted from blueprints on laid-out rolls of mesh. Rolled up, marked for reassembling, the mesh is shipped overseas to hide airdromes, tank farms, gun emplacements. So well has the mesh worked that it is fast replacing spun glass and steel wool camouflage covers. Boasted Camoufleur Kleiser: "A robin built a nest in one of our fake trees in Seattle. It has to be good to fool a robin...