Word: blue
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...witness stand, Miss Miller, smart in a blue tailored suit, told a sympathetic jury that Ross Wyatt had wooed her and pursued her for seven years; had kissed her the week he hired her as his secretary in 1931; had threatened to kill her brother if he interfered; had sworn to kill "both of you" if he found her going with another man. There were no real intimacies, said she: kisses and hugs, love letters, slaps, hair-pullings, finally escape to Chicago...
Correspondents were told Lord Halifax's British Blue Book was a poor thing, hastily published immediately after the outbreak of hostilities, not a scholarly work at all. The Foreign Office spokesman carefully emphasized that the White Book, much longer, and published three months after the outbreak of the war, is a scholarly, accurate German work...
...quoted (cracking back when British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson complained of German noncooperation with Britain) : "It takes two to make a love match." In the fourth and final section, "Poland as the Tool of England's War Will," the German White Book duplicates many of the British Blue Book's documents on the August 1939 crisis, but omits altogether the German-Soviet Pact, the curtain raiser to World...
...bore, its history sectional, its length pretentious, its writing as drab as a bolt of butternut shoddy. The destruction of the South's civilization in the War between the States, told as the case history of two plantation families, the red-blooded O'Haras and the blue-blooded Wilkeses, had been better told before. The overlapping loves of Scarlett O'Hara for Ashley Wilkes, Rhett Butler for Scarlett O'Hara, could be read in any confession magazine...
...item shown in this connection is an advertising leaflet prepared for the European equivalent of the Pullman company, to advertise its sleeping car accommodations; the leaflet is simply printed in white type and illustrations are on a dark blue background...