Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grade Whites. Dr. R. Bennett Bean of the University of Virginia, from a profound anatomical study of races, reported that the white races are advancing in superiority over the yellow and black; if not, the yellow and black are receding. He reached this finding after dividing humanity, irrespective of color, into high, medium and low types, then subdividing these grades according to color. Among the low, those with deficient mentality and bodies, stubby fingers, slanting foreheads and other stigmata, there were relatively few whites. Not so the black and yellow...
...What color is an infuscate sailor? (See ITALY...
...seems a pity that this book, with a subject so rich, and fragrant, po- tentially as full of life and color as the Mississippi in the old days, should be dull. For a gambler's anecdotes to be flat it is unforgiveable. Every now and then some life breaks through the crust of monotonous, disorganized narative--it is impossible to pass soberly by the time when the boiler burst and killed fourteen preachers, while the only people saved on the boat were the abandoned souls who were playing roulette in the barber shop under Mr. Devol's chaperonage...
...mistake. Reall, you know, I am not the Vagabond, No, he is living up to his name by roaming through the rainy region of Boston. Brockton, Brighton, and Brookline, chasing--not a burglar--but an idea. When last seen he had queer instrument of a green color under one arm with which he said he hoped to bag the idea. Imagine searching Boston for an idea. I told him he was an optimist...
...particular thought, "around the world in a daylight day," occurred to Dr. Charles H. T. Townsend, a U. S. entomologist stationed at Itaquaquecetuba, Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil, during his studies of a muscoid fly called Cephenemyia, the world's fastest aeronaut. Much like a bumblebee in size, color and form, Cephenemyia begins life as a larval parasite in the nasal passages or other head cavities of deer, cattle and other ruminants. To find suitable host animals and catch them and get into their noses and out again, the adult flies must range immense tracts of country at terrific...