Word: caucasian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months he stayed in that condition. Then his sight returned and he began to improve. But, to his shame as a good Haitian, he was entirely white, not the sallow white of the albino, nor the blotched white of the syphilitic, but the white of the true Caucasian. His hair remained kinky...
Black Haitian patriots hope that the man will turn black again. Otherwise, argued President Vincent, "if by virtue of the ouarit we were able to choose the Caucasian race, our history evidently would have no meaning to our descendants. Our legitimate pretension to march one day at the head of a great black civilization would fall by the wayside. . . . Henceforth, on this planet there would be nothing but white...
...mismanagement but it works out surprisingly well. Helen Hayes has to struggle a little with her role as Lien Wha but she manages to give it pathos and simplicity. Tom Lee is Ramon Novarro with his sideburns shaved off far above his ears. The rest of a strikingly Caucasian cast plays in the tradition for oriental melodrama-keeping the right hand in the left coat sleeve and saying little. Warner Oland as the Chinese gambler seems most at home in his surroundings. He gives out a few aphorisms left over from his performances as Charlie Chan and wears his hair...
...Beatrice Webb knew it or not, the Soviet Powder, Perfume, Rouge & Lipstick Trust is managed by the young, pretty, blonde wife of Premier Molotov (TIME, June 13), close friend of young, brunette Mme Stalin. For good measure tart Beatrice Webb added: "Some of the young women I saw at Caucasian seaside resorts were dressed far too smartly." Shrewd Sidney Webb kept mum. The Soviet censor passed Beatrice Webb's blurt...
Many a squeamish U. S. citizen believes that a Chinese can live on what an Occidental throws away, suspects that Chinese business establishments ? notably chop suey restaurants and laundries?are unsanitary. Caucasian aversion to Chinese hygiene entered a business quarrel which reached New York City's courts fortnight...