Word: crystalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fruit of his and of the rest of the Paris bureau's labors arrived in Manhattan on schedule for writing and editing. Everything about the report was crystal clear except an explanation of the switchboard in Thorez' regal office. The switchboard was an impressive affair studded with 48 buttons and twinkling red and green lights. LaGuerre, who couldn't take his eyes off of it, asked the leader what it signified. Thorez swore that he never had been able to figure the blamed thing...
...lady who is national president of Alpha Xi Delta sorority, which has 19,000 members in 60 U.S. colleges, summed it up this way: "Life is selective, and maybe it's just as well to learn it while we are young." Last week Crystal Malone, 19, an Alpha Xi "pledge" at the University of Vermont, was learning. Crystal is a Negro...
...Crystal, a junior class student from Washington, D.C., was pledged to Alpha Xi last October; after national headquarters found it out, the Vermont chapter was placed on probation. Said Chapter President Patricia Pringle, last week, standing pat: "The members have no intention of revoking the original pledge. The girls are proud to be sorority sisters of Miss Malone." The Burlington Daily News acclaimed the girls as "heroines of peace...
Replied Alpha Xi Delta's national president, Mrs. Beverly Robinson, a Washington clubwoman: ". . . I'm sorry this happened both for [Crystal's] sake and for ours. But I expect the girls up there thought she was an exotic and interesting person-the way you would think of someone from a foreign country. . . . When other fraternities decide to [admit Negroes] we probably will too. We don't try to be different." Her advice to the Vermont chapter: they should have told Crystal to form a Negro sorority. At Vermont, this would have to be a one-woman...
Haile Selassie, Conquering Lion of Judah, appeared to be in the chips. At Sweden's famed Orrefors Glass Works his coat of arms was being tooled on 676 crystal carafes and drinking glasses which would set back the black-bearded Negus...