Word: complexion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lady in the picture had good looks and a title: Lady Georgiana Gordon. Moreover, she was by the respected hand of 18th Century British Portraitist John Hoppner. But she was in poor condition, her complexion sallowed by a thick coat of yellow varnish. When the Brooklyn Museum got her as a gift in 1934, officials dismissed Lady Georgiana as an inferior Hoppner, sent her to the basement. Recently, Brooklyn assigned Restorer Sheldon Keck to give her a thorough face lifting...
...their blessings. Ex-Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, now Chancellor of Ireland's National University, is on the planetarium board. Half of the cost ($200,000) will be raised by popular subscription in Ireland. The rest, it is hoped, will come from Irish well-wishers, of whatever political complexion...
...lushly Technicolored version of the Rudyard Kipling adventure novel, will tempt small boys to trade in their Hopalong Cassidy duds for a turban, a walnut-stained complexion and a British Secret Service mission in the Empire's wild East of 1885. Like Treasure Island's Jim Hawkins, Kipling's spunky little hero reigns in a world of outsmarted adults. More than that, Kim (ably played by Dean Stockwell) comes equipped with swashbuckling dash, a guttersnipe's invective and a taste for fine cigars...
...contest took on its high scoring complexion in the second inning when a walk to Cliff Crosby started a chain of events that was eventually to net the Crimson ten runs on only four hits. Fifteen men came to bat in the 27-minute half inning and when it was over the keeper of the score board was trying to figure out how to put up the total. The Harvard box score: ab r h po a e Foynes, cf 3 3 1 4 0 0 Kobush, cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kenny...
...Diet, the House of Councilors. At stake in the elections were the seats of 125 Councilors whose terms ended this year, as well as seven more seats which had fallen vacant through death or resignation. A major shift in the distribution of these 132 seats could change significantly the complexion of the 250-man House...