Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barn, light a cigar with his AAA pasteboard and go unpunished. Mr. Wallace simply told cotton buyers, who are not a big or politically potent class, that upon them rests the burden of properly identifying the cotton. Furthermore, buyers, on pain of $500 fine, must strictly observe an AAA color line...
Vast are the differences on each side of the color line. White-card holders, in addition to selling their cotton without undue complication, will receive a Government bounty of 2.4? a pound. But buyers of red-card cotton must note whether the farmer is selling cotton grown on acreage beyond an allotted quota. If so, the buyer must collect a 2-cent penalty tax on each pound bought...
...contorted Brooklyn man was a patient of Anesthetist Marius Bohdan Greene. Taking him into an aseptic operating room, he gently rolled the patient on his side, rolled up the bed shirt, injected into the spine a mixture of alcohol chloroform, acetone and cobra venom. The tortured man unbent. Faint color flooded his face. He opened his eyes...
...involved in as many complications as a Prime Minister, with the old lady blackmailing him for no crime, the bank clerk dodging the police who are not after him. Above the level of comic-novel fooling are good descriptions of Mudgett at work-more concerned about light and color than about the girl he is painting, gradually awaking to the fact that his pictures are getting bolder, better, brighter, the more he sees of her. By the time his emotions are most involved he is painting like a genius, thus demonstrating Author Lindsay's sly thesis that artists...
...quadruplets died on the third day. But no one may ever doubt that the four actually existed. For exhibited in Liverpool last week was a 20-minute film of their birth, in color...