Word: swarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dais not far from Her Majesty was the swart, striking young Emir Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and smoldering-eyed son of that kingdom's tall, ascetic founder and autocratic ruler, His Majesty King Ibn Saud. As usual, the Buckingham presentations were of no significance, but men who know the Near East saw a sign and portent of British prestige in Arabia's great new State as its Crown Prince took his respectful stand near the Queen-Empress...
...biggest bargain in rail travel is the 25-mi. ride to be had for 5? on New York City's subways. Nevertheless, many a skinflint succeeds in cheating the companies out of his fare by using slugs in the automatic turnstiles. Last week New York's short, swart Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia dispatched a scow to Long Island Sound to dump 620,000 slugs- representing a loss of $31,000 to the city-owned Independent Subway System alone -into the sea. The assorted slugs weighed three tons, consisted mainly of lead, iron, aluminum, brass, tin, linoleum. Some bore...
Many of the pictures came from Imperial Palaces; all were once the property of Russian aristocrats. Beyond their subject matter, however, there was nothing Russian about any of them. It was swart, hulking Peter the Great who unwittingly stifled the development of Russian painting. Disgusted with the barbarism of his own court, he made French the court language, sent Russian artists, most of whom were serfs, abroad to study, imported droves of Italian, German, French craftsmen. At least four Britons brought in were among the founders of Russian secular art: James Walker, John Augustus Atkinson, Edward Miles and Landscapist Richard...
Across the table from Baron Aloisi were immaculate Capt. Anthony Eden, white hope of the British Foreign Office, and swart Pierre Laval, Foreign Minister of France. Britain's Lord Privy Seal, normally the most suave of diplomats, had just recovered from a heart attack. Word had come from London that important Cabinet changes were imminent (see p. 19). With luck, within a fortnight, Captain Eden might find himself Foreign Minister of Great Britain. Minister Laval had scarcely had a good night's sleep for a month. The clatter of railway wheels rang ceaselessly in his ears...
...hundred and fifty Manhattan bankers, businessmen, editors and miscellaneous bigwigs had fun initiating New York's short, swart Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia into the Circus Saints & Sinners, a club whose underlying purpose is to fit out a home for retired circus performers. Under a tent in the Hotel Gotham, Marionettist Tony Sarg set a small gilt chair in a five-foot sawdust ring, set Mayor LaGuardia on the chair. Cried Ringmaster Sarg: "Do you think he has enough hair to be Mayor?" Chorused the Saints & Sinners: "No." Ringmaster Sarg clapped a grey wig on the Mayor, added the fur trimmed...