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...Species of young human male to be found in mixed company from noon to midnight and after. He is lavish in his attention to dress, complexion, repartee, new dance steps, light refreshment. The name which newspaper readers have sickened of seeing for several years, without fully understanding it, is thought to have originated in Washington or farther south, deriving from the species' propensity for tea, cakes and soda-fountain goodies...
...when she posed for Engraver George Morgan and let him affix her profile as Goddess of Liberty to the silver dollars issued by the U.S. Mint at Philadelphia in 1878. In 1880 a newspaper man divulged her secret and she was flooded with offers to exploit her beauty-fair complexion, blue eyes, Grecian nose and crown of soft-spun golden hair-on the stage. She refused, staying on as principal of a house-of-refuge girls' school. She later taught kindergarten philosophy at a normal school, not retiring until 1924. Not only did she take no false vanity...
...Percy A. Rockefeller was the first important one. He is now middle-aged (48), very tall, indeed taller than his deceased father, William, his cousin, John Davison Jr. (four years younger), or his revered uncle, John D. Sr.** Spectators noted his heavily tanned and freckled complexion, his horn-rimmed spectacles in their gold frame, his slanting forehead, his meticulously parted hair. He answered questions for the most part readily, always frankly, in a mild, almost diffident voice. One trick of his amused the attendants. He pinches his lips between thumb and forefinger every time he must reflect for a phrase...
...Good Friday, April 21, 1916, the German submarine U-719 eased up out of the sea off the west coast of Ireland. As the conning tower hatch was raised, a tall, thin, cadaverous Irishman with thick black hair and a pointed beard looked out. His complexion, deeply tanned during the long years he had spent serving the British Crown in the tropics, was now grown sallow and his forehead showed a network of tiny lines. Though Edward VII had knighted him, he was now about to commit the last act in a conspiracy of high treason against the realm...
...that Coach Roper of Princeton sent against Yale on Saturday, 14 will return to college next fall, and the Tigers hopes for next season are consequently of a distinctly rosy complexion. Captain McMillan, Nassau's capable leader; Dignan, line-breaking left halfback, and left tackle Gates are the only Bengals that upset Saturday's predictions who will not report to the Princeton mentor next September...