Word: beane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning there arrived inopportunely at Vienna famed U. S. negroid danseuse Josephine Baker-in figure like a long string bean, in color a prepossessing tawny chocolate, and in motion either sinuously undulant or mechanistically "jazz mad." Would she, whom smart Paris has huzzahed at the Folies-Bergere and toasted at her own night club, Chez Josephine Baker, be rudely welcomed among Viennese as is the hardy pilgrim who ventures among disapproving skunks? Prudently a strong police escort was accorded Miss Baker between the station and her hotel. Thereafter, although a few students skulked in the vicinity for some hours...
...zones of North & South America. Their common possession is abundant food. However there are short peoples (Japanese, Mediterraneans, Central Americans, Fuegians, Malays and southern Asiatics) who have descended from taller stocks and who have an adequate food supply. Because they all live close to the oceans, Professor Robert Bennett Bean of the University of Virginia reasons: "Sea areas and probably sea foods have an influence in reducing the stature by increasing the iodine intake. [The thyroid gland in the neck utilizes the iodine and controls bodily growth.] . . . Looked at in its broadest sense, environment molds the individual, selection retains...
...sure could beat that drum. . . . I met his girl a while back. She's married to a grocery agent now . . . funny, she should marry a drummer, huh?" The fireman's band played the tune of a bugle-call, "Soupy, soupy, soupy, without a single bean. . . ." Someone was saying: ". . . And we began to think the hard tack was turkey...
...audience is requested to take what it likes and leave the rest. That is a capital idea. Unfortunately theatrical limitations impose upon Miss Stewart's revue, as indeed upon all others, the table d'hote principle. You cannot taste her chicken and custard without swallowing her bean soup and sauerkraut in the same performance. There is, first of all, a dancer, Harriet Hoctor, who, as a fairy doll, breezes across the stage like melody and floats away on a fancy that all the rest of mankind is clopping through life with one foot in a mud bog. George...
...John Bean, Chairman, Miss Miriam Paine: E. I. Wallach, Miss Elinor Abrahams; M. G. Jasper, Miss Frances Payne: H. A. Felix, Miss Russella Andrews: I. R. Duchin, Miss Jeanette Rosenson...