Word: white
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazis Can't Win. Beaming like newlyweds, they received newspapermen. The Duchess was bright ("looked even better than when she left") in a gold dress, a gold and black checked coat, the Duke proper ("looked several years younger") in gray double-breasted flannels and a maroon-and-white...
...most extraordinary and most typically British characters that Alice met on the other side of the looking glass was the White Knight. To be prepared for "everything" he carried not only tin armor and a helmet, but also a sandwich box, a mousetrap, fire-irons, carrots, a beehive; and his horse was equipped with anti-sharkbite anklets. Great Britain was last week compared to the White Knight by more than one Briton, and the parallel was just...
Precautions went screwy. To prevent autos from striking them during blackouts, cows and horses were painted with white stripes. Sandbags climbed walls like ivy, till there was such a shortage that some lingerie factories began making them. Instead of sandbags, the lawyers of Gray's Inn protected their windows with heavy legal tomes. A rabbi banned the sounding of Shophar ram's horn on the Jewish New Year for fear the populace would take it for an air-raid signal. Stores sold luminous paint for switches and doorknobs, "gas costumes" guaranteed to resist mustard gas 45 minutes, furniture...
...heard his small brother cry, "Jump, Mother, jump!" and then saw him disappear forever; there was a Houston girl who, tossed into the water, saw a man beside her "just gasp and die"; there was a baby carried down the gangplank wrapped in a seaman's green-&-white-striped jersey; there was John Hayworth of Hamilton, Ont., father of ten-year-old Margaret Hayworth, whose head was crushed in the explosion, waiting at the pier for his wife to disembark. Mrs. Hayworth met him, and sobbed, "Dear God, John, she's gone...
...These causes are rooted in the inner weaknesses of the Polish State. Poland is a multi-national State.*The Poles constitute only about 60% of the population of Poland. . . . Poland is inhabited by no less than 8,000,000 Ukrainians and about 3,000,000 White Russians. ... It would appear that the Polish ruling circles should have established normal relations with such important national minorities. . . . Instead the national policy . . . was characterized by suppression and oppression of national minorities. . . . Regions in which the Ukrainians form a majority of the population were subjected to extremely rude and unscrupulous exploitation by Polish landlords...