Word: complexions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heiress is called "Princess" by right of her royal birth, but she has no title in the peerage, and is rated a commoner by law. She is medium tall (5 ft. 4 in.), slim (cameras give her a falsely hefty look), full-bosomed, with brown hair, a creamy, fair complexion, blue eyes, and white teeth (a shade oversize). She has neither her father's shy reserve nor her mother's dazzling charm. Last week, as she stood unobtrusively at her father's elbow, she frequently seemed plain bored. But those who looked sharp could catch an occasional...
Sports editors from rival papers kicked because, they said, L'Humanite approved the entry only of French athletes of the proper pink political complexion. At the field itself 10,006 soggy sports fans, who had paid 10 francs each, groused at the political speeches. There was nothing about the races themselves to cheer them up. In the five-kilometer event, half of the huge starting field of 600 dropped out before the end. Many of those remaining were a full lap behind. At the finish: 100 runners crossed the line in such an inextricable melee that nobody could tell...
...write letters blatant On medicines patent-And use any others you mustn't-And vow my complexion Derives its perfection...
...wood engraver, has set out to remember mania in all her Edwardian glory. Mama first fell madly in love at ten (with a window cleaner), published her first novel at 16, and believed until the end of her life (1941) that the secret of a ladylike complexion was cold water, lemons and dry oatmeal, externally applied...
...work week for a TIME bureau head-beyond satisfying TIME'S editorial queries-would be likely to include visits from such assorted personages as i) a small businessman seeking publicity for a new type of plumbing joint he had invented, 2) a Government investigator inquiring into the political complexion of the Kansas City Star, 3) a writer looking for special material for his novel, 4) a paste salesman wanting desk space and a telephone, 5) the owner of a coal mine in Alberta on the lookout for unemployed coal miners; telephone calls from all sorts of people asking specific...