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Word: brownskins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While Prime Minister MacDonald was at the White House, waiting in Manhattan for his turn to see President Hoover was a slender little gentleman who looked not unlike a brownskin edition of Secretary Mellon (but with wider lips). This, a very finicky gentleman with his own chef, an imposing retinue of secretaries, an in come of $3,000,000 per year and a family tree 900 years old, was the much-married Maharajah of Kapurthala in the Punjab, accredited representative to the League of Nations of Their Highnesses the Indian ruling princes. Precisely what he wished to discuss with President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Thalassocrats | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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