Word: complexion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yagna, a neighbor's daughter, was strong as any man, with a milky complexion and a passionate fondness for adornment. The village tongues wagged and the hearts of the village swains were stirred. Constantly they sent to her "proposers." (When a Polish peasant wishes to propose, he sends two friends with vodka to the lady of his choice. If she drinks to him, they are assumed to be affianced.) Yagna bestowed her heart nowhere, and her shrewd mother had not yet seen fit to bestow her hand...
...Rhinelander is "handsome of face, extremely dark of complexion." Mr. Rhinelander "wears thick-lensed glasses, a sandy mustache and a troubled expression...
Evidence of a political complexion was not lacking in the present general strike. The Social Democrat (Labor) body made relatively moderate wage demands; but those of the Pan-Germans (the Austrian Party which advocates union with Germany) were found to be exorbitant. This was taken to mean that the Pan-Germans, who form the coalition with the Christian Socialists, had gone over to the Social Democrats...
...moth-eaten natural history book, lately discovered in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library describes the tiger as "a large feline of the zebra complexion which inhabits the swamps of New Jersey. For a short period every we years it migrates northward in great numbers to the flats at Cambridge, Massachusetts, to 'pawn'. After his operation the animal returns to is habitat, greatly reduced, and in a condition relatively "ractable...
...Bowling Green"and Mr. William Benet's "The Phoenix Nest" recommend it heartily to the large personal followings of these gentlemen. It is not in any sense a supplement to a paper. It is a review in the traditions of the English reviews, with somewhat of the complexion of The Times Literary Supplement; or rather, perhaps, with more of the manner of a political weekly without the politics...