Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week French customs agents noticed white powder seeping from packing cases addressed to Sirdar Al Ghulam Nabi Khan, Afghan Minister in Paris, just appointed Ambassador to Moscow. Four cases were seized, found to contain $33,000 worth of heroin...
...White House. President Hoover called Senators Watson and Reed to the White House. When they returned to the Capitol, they were asked to explain the Presidents' tariff position. Senator Watson spoke with assurance of a "sane and sensible" tariff revision, of a "yardstick of adequate protection." Promptly from the White House came a denial that Senator Watson had been authorized to voice the Hoover views. Democrats jibed that the President must therefore favor "an insane and senseless" tariff revision without any reasonable measurement for protection. The White House the next day denied its first denial, which left the President...
Colors. Stylists noted dark brown and wine red predominated, relieved by orange, royal blue, chartreuse, honey-beige, carnelian. Black and white is "in," as always...
...authentic atmosphere of a London drawing-room. Imogene Wilson, now Mary Nolan, plays satirically and deftly as the blonde girl who brings about the inconstancy of the constant wife's husband. Best shot: The ladies mouthing epigrams at tea. Imogene Wilson's long eyelashes, big blue eyes, white skin, ash-blonde hair made her one of the prettiest children in the village
...Dartmouth, pipe-smoking naval officers were sprawled on the Devon-green grass listening to the clear crack of willow bat on cricket ball, watching their more athletic colleagues play the youngsters of the Royal Naval College. The cadet eleven ginined happily in their spotless white flannels and played close. They had just caught a grizzled Lieutenant-Commander leg-before-wicket, and the present batsmen, for all their massive shin guards and bushy eyebrows, seemed easy. Suddenly at a whispered word from the sidelines the long-white-coated umpire stopped the game and announced...