Word: complexion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said the President: he is deeply interested in what happens to the complexion of the Senate and of the House of Representatives. At the same time, he does not intend to make of the presidency an agency to use in partisan politics. He has the conception that, although elected by only part of the population, anyone occupying the office is President of all the people. The Chief Executive has the responsibility of attempting to develop a program for the benefit of all the people. His success in framing such a program depends on the caliber of his associates from...
...Menen, did not shun or scorn the dark-skinned little boy who grew up among them. On the contrary, they tried their best to make him feel at home-and tried so hard that he felt just the opposite. Menen's schoolteachers assured him that, despite his Indian complexion, he was heir, "by virtue of my birth certificate," to all the wonderful inner characteristics that made Englishmen the most cultured, most advanced, most notable people in the world. They even argued that, despite his Indo-Irish parentage, he had, if he tried hard, an excellent chance of growing into...
...silver buttons, she sat by a coal fire under an oval picture of her mother, and guarded by a Maltese cat. My heart hurt. Could this wreck, this ruin, this witch be the "outrageously beautiful" Maud Gonne? The woman Yeats had called "a classical impersonation of the spring, with complexion luminous as apple blossoms through which the light falls"? The mouth had sunk. The chin approached the nose. How heart-wrenching the mutations of time . . . But as she talked, I felt the upsurge of a vibrant personality. She lived; I could believe in her beauty...
...eleven weeks since Apostle Benson took office, he has found that his job, if not always spiritual, is one that requires all the fortitude and dedication of a Brigham Young. Benson is a big (6 ft., 220 Ibs.), open-faced 53-year-old who looks younger, has the ruddy complexion of one who has spent years in the fields (which he has) and the hearty smile and firm handshake of a Boy Scout leader (which he is). He adheres to the old-fashioned philosophy that God helps those who help themselves. Benson quotes the Bible to show how he applies...
Enter Magda. Carol was a restless 30 when he met Elena Lupescu, divorced wife of a Rumanian army officer. A flaming redhead with a camellia-white complexion and green eyes, Magda, as she was known, became Carol's mistress. King Ferdinand ordered her out of the country. Carol joined her in Paris, wrote his father: "I not only renounce the throne, but I renounce all rights that I have ... my child ... and my wealth." When Ferdinand died two years later, Carol's son, the six-year-old Michael, became King...