Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area on Massachusetts Avenue between Dunster and Holyoke Streets is being considered as the site for the projected Behavioral Sciences Building, Robert W. White, chairman of the Social Relations Department, has disclosed...
...least one day a week, Revson dons a white coat and roams through the company's laboratories, where Revlon this year is spending $1.1 million on research, more than any other cosmetics firm. His eye is so sharp that he can pick out the one imperfect lipstick on an assembly line of hundreds, his standards so high that he has been known to throw away $1,000,000 worth of lipstick because its shade was just a little...
...Elements of Style, Strunk and White...
...from Mars said, "Take me to your leader" in the days of President McKinley, many an American might have answered, "What leader?" Few U.S. Presidents have exerted so colorless a leadership from the White House, and few have faded so quickly from the nation's memory. In a new biography, Pulitzer Prizewinner Margaret (Reveille in Washington) Leech thoughtfully recalls a President who was widely loved, sincerely devoted to his country and to the Christian virtues, but who remained even in historic moments (as Author Leech puts it) "the captive of caution and indirection." Her biography gives McKinley...
...nibbled the trimmings on Alice Toklas' hat. There was Alfred Jarry, an absinthe-minded playwright who carried a revolver and once shot down "some obstreperous nightingales." Oddest of all was Gerald Berners, an English lord who had a tiny piano built into his Rolls, and would flash a white mask at villagers, whose terror grew as ghostly strains of Scarlatti wafted from the disappearing...