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Appropriate tests of those ingredients made separately on the skins of volunteers demonstrated that, apart from maceration and mechanical injury, rosins, pitch and smoke-cured wild rubber are the chief irritants. Complexion, previous skin diseases or a predisposition to shingles or other allergens apparently have nothing to do with the sensitivity to adhesive plaster found in one out of every hundred normal men, women & children...
Greensickness is defined as "an anaemic disease which mostly affects young women about the age of puberty and gives a pale or greenish tinge to the complexion." Present-day letters, which some doctors have diagnosed as convalescing from a long siege of bilious morbidity, is breaking out in occasional patches that seem reminiscent of the same sort of adolescent sickliness. Author Douglas' high-minded story has a strong, sweet flavor about it that will attract followers of the late Gene Stratton Porter, members of the Oxford Group et al., but its color is definitely green...
...summary of the history of the Arabian people to show how so many different racial types should have the same culture. He then told of the growth of the Nationalist movement which began as a revival of the early literature and culture and later took on an increased political complexion...
...pupils, had they cared one way or the other, would have had to look twice to be sure that their new principal was not white. One of Harlem's handsomest women, tall, scholarly Gertrude Ayer has a creamy complexion, set off by kinkless grey hair with a streak of black running straight back from the forehead...
What Oregonian readers did not know was that the eruption of the Oregonian's 84-year-old complexion was due to violent internal disturbances. Viskniskki & Associates were in Portland...