Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clause was intended to keep Canada's Japanese from voting, had the support of color-touchy members from British Columbia. There Japanese have long been barred from the polls. The effect of the new bill was to extend the British Columbia ban to all of Canada. Any legislature could as easily bar Canadians of German or Italian extraction from voting...
...Leary Constantine, a burly West Indian cricket star, was tossed out of London's Imperial Hotel with the explanation: "We don't want Negroes here." He sued. Last fortnight the hotelkeeper told a British court that his house was full of Americans when Constantine arrived, argued that color prejudice among his U.S. guests justified his action. Last week the court awarded Constantine five guineas ($21), the maximum permitted under British law for breach of contract.' But the money was immaterial to Leary Constantine. He was satisfied with the ruling that Britons should not bow to U.S. prejudices...
...enthralls his fans, it is his lingo. For Tin Tan is a master of pocho, and pocho, a bilingual bastardy of anglicized Mexican,† is as funny to Mexican ears as the English of a stage Englishman is to Americans. Pocho, which literally means something that has lost its color, has come to stand for the thousands of Mexicans near or across the border who have ruined their Spanish without ever quite learning English. To aficionados Tin Tan is high satire...
...north, in a long thin funnel, white to greasy green in color, the storm poured through, with thunderous roar and a long trail of smoke like an express train. It hit Joetown, then Oakdale, then swept Pleasant Hill. Fifteen of the 25 houses toppled as if they had been stepped on. Stoves, mattresses and tables poured down onto Route 19. Porches and roofs, caught in the swirl, splashed in the debris of Pleasant Hill, and then the tornado ground on through West Virginia...
...Prospect. As practically as it can in a white man's country, the Government of Jan Smuts supports a better deal for the blacks. Among other reasons for this attitude, Smuts knows that the Union's rigid color bar is also a bar to one of his fondest dreams-a Greater South Africa, built around the Union and embracing British territories below the Congo. The blacks in Britain's crown colonies and protectorates do not have equality. But under the British Colonial Office they get a better break than they do in the Union. This fact...