Word: swarts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When, in 1928, the meteoric career of Joe Strong, the Boy Plunger, ended abruptly with the latter's disappearance from Wall Street, few knew that Perelman had ended another chapter. In bloody Cicero, Illinois, swart Sicilian mobsters fingered their roscoes uneasily, dismayed at lightning forays by a new rival. In a scant eight months, no shell of needled beer touched lip in Chicago County without previous tribute to 'Nails' Perelman. Implacable, deadly as a puff adder, the hand that triggered a steely automatic could caress a first Folio with equal relish. Able to snatch in fifteen minutes...
...Swart, pig-eyed Pierre Laval could have things his own way now in France. With dictatorial powers granted to him by old Marshal Pétain, with the Gestapo by his side in a country now fully under German occupation, he, free of the check-reins of government, felt he could thumb his bulbous nose at public opinion. These were main items on the well-filled Laval calendar...
...loan, it was growing so fast even its sponsors were dazzled. Its name: Northeast Airlines, Inc., which before the war supplied limited mail and passenger service between Boston and Moncton, N.B., with offshoots to Montreal and Presque Isle, Me. Its boss and ignition system: short, swart Samuel Joseph Solomon, who got into aviation via the airport-manager route...
...President called for his good right arm, and in Washington appeared swart Herbert H. Lehman to start work on the biggest civilian assignment of World War II. No more breathtaking than the title was the job-Director of Foreign Relief & Rehabilitation (TIME...
...Welcomed his wife home from England ; greeted swart, mustached Ecuadorian President Dr. Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio, in the U.S. on a state visit...