Word: rufous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long indecision about his Attorney General was at last resolved by Vice President Garner and Jim Farley: five New Yorkers in the Cabinet would really be too many, therefore the President must pass over Solicitor-General Bob Jackson. Mr. Garner's thorough approval of Michigan's rufous Governor-reject Frank Murphy settled the matter. With that approval, the man-who-was-soft-on-sit-down-strikers could be confirmed without trouble. So Mr. Murphy packed up in Lansing, took his brother George, his sister Marguerite Murphy Teahan and the Bible his mother gave him. Next day he presented...
...Uncle Bim didn't die broke after all. The election, the new seats in Congress, the squad of new Republican Governors, the startling proof that the New Deal is not immortal, made all the ladies & gentlemen feel downright festive. And then into their midst rushed a chunky, rufous young man from New York and almost spoiled...
...room, through heavy air that muffled footfalls, discouraged talk. In that uneasy silence the body, clad in the uniform of a Red Commander with a shroud over the legs, lay on a block of black granite, beneath a tent-shaped enclosure of glass. The bald, Slavic head with scrubby, rufous beard and mustache rested on a silk pillow. From the ridge of the glass enclosure shielded lights glowed on the waxy features of the man who proclaimed the World Revolution of the World Proletariat. Other light there was none. Through that gloom, by last week, more than...
...double file with every one in step the 20 pouch-necked, rufous, black & white-streaked grouse strutted forward, keeping perfect time. As one they hopped as neatly back. Forward again, and with heads bobbing the two front couples swung to left and right, wheeled fanwise, fell in at the rear. Four times the figure was repeated, until the rear couples were once more in their places. Now odd couples did a left face, even couples a right face, and the two lines moved apart. An about face brought them back together. Then all faced front and again the double file...
...Observers at the Conference eyed with interest stocky, rufous, sly-smiling President Leon Fraser of the B. I. S. Would he pop a plan for world finance before the Conference broke up? "Only like a hat trick at the last moment, if at all," was his evasive answer. And he popped no plan...