Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inscription. Last week that view was overruled by a Belgian court. Piquant was the triumph of the new library's U. S. architect, potent and temperamental Whitney Warren, famed in Manhatten alike for his ability and for appearances at socialite functions in a blue silk shirt and bulging white scarf...
Kabul grew too hot last week for gleaming-eyed, white-tusked King Habibullah, the savage onetime bandit who last winter wrested Afghanistan's throne from weak, well-meaning little King Amanullah (TIME, Jan. 28). All through the summer, Usurper Habibullah has been harassed by the lean, ruthless, white-chinned Nadir Khan, ill-famed for boiling his captured enemies in oil (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week Nadir converged three armies of overwhelming might upon Kabul. Prudent Habibullah fled in an airplane to escape being French-fried. Without resistance the city fell. Since victorious Nadir was once a general...
...Washington Advertising Club: "My own judgment is that the Federal Government should concentrate its exceptional aid on a few natural transportation routes which have been traveled by ox team, pony express, railroad, automobile and airplane, because people and commodities have naturally traveled over such routes since white men came to America...
...BRING THAT UP? (Moran & Mack)-Genial routine of a black-face team in white face...
...slept at the White House in the onetime room and bed of John Coolidge...