Word: swarts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came out, Editor Green herded his staffers (Variety calls them "muggs") upstairs into a dusty, top-floor parlor. He was going away for 'a couple of months, he said, and short, swart, 210-pound Nat Kahn, eight years a mugg, would be boss. Out in Hollywood, Green will help Warner Bros, erect it's long-planned monument to the man who made slangy Variety the "showbiz" oracle it is: Founder Sime ("Mr. Broadway") Silverman...
Buchenwald had taught Mayor Doinel of Brunoy that "there are no good Germans." For five months he had blocked the marriage of his fellow townsman, swart Achille Nicolo, who had also returned from German captivity, with a German bride-to-be. But the Mayor could carry obstruction no further. The papers of the couple were in perfect order. The Department Subprefect had warned him that he must perform the ceremony...
...Brazil, biggest in size (3,286,170 sq. mi.) and population (44,460,000), replaced swart little Getulio Vargas, its President and dictator since 1930 (see above...
...challenger was a man the war-weary Filipinos knew well: smart, swart Brigadier General Manuel Roxas y Acuna, a lawyer-economist turned soldier, who had been asked by General MacArthur to stay behind when the General and the Philippine Government left...
...roads to Mandalay had never seen such strange companies of men: long-bearded Sikhs, tall, blond Britons, swart Gurkhas. Their companions were as strange. On almost every truck and tank perched a sad-faced monkey. A sheep marched beside an Indian Army officer, took cover with him in battle, lay down beside him at night. Fierce Gurkha warriors walked beside their mules, talked affectionately to them, brushed them devotedly (a Gurkha looks upon a mule as infallible, and weeps like a child when one is killed...