Word: russet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CRIMSON was on the spot; who could they send to hit under that blazing russet sun? Carodny had been traded to the Times. Ludendorff lanquished in Minneapolis. Suddenly from the dugout the diminutive figure of Frail B. Little-fellow emerged into the garnet...
...going to art school, his father dubiously packed him off with a tiny allowance and a heavy load of advice. "Be a Michelangelo if you like," the elder John said solemnly, "but first make your living." Out of sight of home, John grew a beard, took to parting his russet hair in the middle and wearing golden earrings. "In spite of a superficial appearance of negligence," he later explained, "my mode of dress was not unstudied and had a style of its own." He has since discarded the earrings, but he wears even his black Homburg with a rakish...
This rose-colored view of a divided Christendom comes from an ex-British, China-born Methodist minister who teaches economics, preaches sermons, and performs marriages at California's Mills College. From behind his usual king-sized cigaret, short, russet-haired Dr. George Hedley last week explained his double job: "You see, the Dean of Chapel at Mills is a layman, so he couldn't perform marriages. I am an ordained minister. . . . When I first came ... in 1940 the Dean of Chapel and I made an arrangement. He taught one of my courses and I gave half the sermons...
Somewhere along here the discussion ended. When last seen, Miss Stein, in her shapeless russet coat and little brown hat mashed onto her head, was shaking hands with the Bronx soldier who had tried to object. He was still glowering...
...color leather. (Previously permitted: black, white, Army russet, town brown, natural colors.) Still barred: two-tone leather shoes...