Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Masquerader. He spent six months preparing to "pass." To stain his skin, he tried walnut juice, iodine, Argyrol, even an infusion of mahogany bark. When nothing worked, he shaved his pate and settled for three weeks in the Florida sun. Disguises were an old dodge to Reporter Sprigle, who won a Pulitzer Prize (1937) for uncovering Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black's past as a Ku Klux Klan member. Three years ago, elaborately roughed up as a black marketeer, he had exposed a meat-rationing scandal in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...
...Goose. Coaltown was a horse the horseplayers really loved. A walnut-brown with a pert personality, he had been beaten only once (by Citation in the Kentucky Derby). His admirers were certain that it could never happen again. Because he ran with his head cocked on one side, his long neck outstretched, they called him "The Goose." At the post, his odds were...
...life of the mountains in the days before the fighting began: little streams, dropping 25 feet to the mile, with names like Grapevine, Blackberry, Sulphur, Sycamore, Turkey and Buffalo; old families of English stock bearing names like Vance, Chafin, Smith, Weddington, Varney, Cline and Trent; forests of oak, cherry, walnut, hickory, linden, beech, sycamore; cabins with quiet hospitality, plenty of food, and courteous, high-strung, honest and proud people...
During the war the hotel served as a Coast Guard barracks, forcing the University to redecorate the walls, the marble-floored hallways, and the high-collinged bedrooms with their walnut and brick fireplaces, and to install new wiring, plumbing, windows and doors, and an improved heating system...
...Barnum and Tex Rickard would have stared in envy. They had staged many a flamboyant spectacle during Madison Square Garden's 70-year history. But last week, in his red-carpeted, walnut-paneled president's office, John Reed Kilpatrick, 58, beamed happily over the biggest thing yet to come the Garden...