Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ground level. In it she placed $4,000 worth of palms (to be replaced as needed) to give an outdoor effect. Elsewhere, she used some of her typical tricks. To make some of the cavernous rooms more cozy, she set up latticed, movable walls. A typical bedroom had sky-blue walls, Tunis-blue furniture, sea-green draperies and carpet, and touches...
...lives quietly in a 26-room house in Georgetown, usually spends his evenings studying legislation, infrequently relaxing with detective stories. Next to absorbing facts, he most enjoys a game of golf (he shoots in the low 80s). In Cincinnati he owns a comfortable, 26-room house on 60-acre "Sky Farm," a farm in name only, although some 150 chickens supply eggs and broilers for the Taft table...
...Wobblies were on the march to keep a legend of martyrdom alive. That legend is woven around Joe Hill, a tough Wobbly organizer and songwriter ("You'll get pie in the sky when you die") who was put to death (by a firing squad) for murder in Utah in 1915. Wobblies charge that he was framed...
...Jerusalem Haj Amin el Husseini, and a rival of Fawzi Bey Kawukji (TIME, March 15) for command of all Arab forces in Palestine. More like a rash corporal than an army commander, Abdul Kader charged up the rocky slopes at the head of his men. Behind him the sky paled, silhouetting his stocky figure. Haganah Bren guns riveted bullets in a straight line across his body. Abdul Kader fell dead. As news of the battle reached Jerusalem, Arab reinforcements streamed out to Kastel in armored cars, trucks and battered U.S.-made taxis. By midafternoon, 2,000 strong, they occupied...
...grossest way. But under their rumpled beds lurked such killjoys as the Gastonia strike, antiSemitism, neurosis, a punch-drunk stockmarket and other cultural menaces. And so, at long last, a strong moral message ("Destructive violence must be fought-with constructive aggressiveness") soars across Father Haydn's sky like a flaming cliche...