Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There were over 300 of us in that hold, for besides the survivors from the Yorkshire, the crew of the City of Mandalay, another torpedoed ship, had already been picked up. We were as tight as sardines in a tin, all mixed together in an indescribable hotch potch of black and white bodies. But nothing mattered; everything was heaven. We talked most of the night. I think all of us were a little chary of closing our eyes. I know that I was for one. Whenever I tried to sleep I saw the Yorkshire slipping back, saw the staring eyes...
Yale barely nosed out Williams for third place in the field of 12 colleges. Competition was close throughout the whole meet, but Eddie Gignac, diminutive all-around Kanone from the Black Panther squad, was far above the rest of the boys in winning the Ski Moister trophy, awarded to the best four-event skier...
...recruits to the French Army: Seydon Nouron Toll, Grand Marabout Chief of Black Islam, who joined at Mamou, French Guinea, was made France's first Capitaine-Aumônier (chaplain) of its black army; Monireth Sisowath, Crown Prince of Cambodia, in the French protectorate of Indo-China, who became a private in the infantry...
...late Californian with a Southern Georgian trace), plunked on a handsome mountainside. To dress it up inside, Decorator Dorothy Draper was brought from Manhattan. She did it complete with drapes of chintz and tweed, turned out uniforms for the help, wound up with small items, toothpicks and swizzlesticks in black...
Whistler signed his paintings with a butterfly, usually about two inches across. Swiss-born Nat Karson uses an alp. At 29, Painter Karson is black-haired, intense, an art director of Manhattan's famed Radio City Music Hall. Last week a Karson mural was unveiled in the lobby of Manhattan's Rialto, the Music Hall of its day (1916), but for the last four years a Manhattan movie house specializing in horror pictures. (Harvardman Arthur L. Mayer, the Rialto's owner, calls himself "The Merchant of Menace...