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There were other small signs that U.S. and British pressure was slowly improving the complexion of General Henri Honoré Giraud's North African Government...
...tried to straddle the political fence has shied from important and controversial bills and in general has tried to identify himself with every group, publicly refusing to take a stand of his own. But in the senatorial voting of which the Senator has taken a part his true political complexion is unmistakable. He is not liberal Republican under the able leadership of Mr. Willkie. He is in spirit, if not in words, one of the "Old Guard...
Intellectual Eunuch. With his fiery reputation, red beard and white complexion, women found Shaw fascinating. They disagreed with a critic's description of him as looking like "an unskillfully poached egg" or being, as H. G. Wells said spitefully, "an intellectual eunuch." He fell blissfully in love with Socialist Poet William Morris' daughter May. But she married a mutual friend. In later years he admitted that May had a mustache, insisted that "it made a pair of lines so decorative that they would have enchanted the finest Maori tattoo artist...
...unprepossessing complexion, Ivan has said: "I don't know why I painted her that way -except that she looked as though she would get varicose veins later on." Nobody but Albright has ever commissioned Albright to do a portrait. "I just paint myself," he says, "and then I don't have to cut out the wrinkles...
...showed "a general improvement in mental and physical endurance." One man of 75, who for five years could not walk hall a block after lunch without an attack, now walks four or five blocks with no trouble. Others climb several flights of stairs, work longer hours, have a complexion of "healthy pink" instead of grey. The injections of the hormone are so small, said Dr. Hamm, that none of the old men felt any sexual stimulation. Unlike the "dynamite" pills, testosterone works very gradually, gives no relief during an attack. After their first course of injections, most patients need...