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...complexion of Texas seemed to be altering. In August, upon her nom- ination by the Democrats, Mrs. Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson was virtually accepted by the Nation as the Governor-elect of Texas. Last week, public prints of all party affiliations published despatches to the effect that this first blush had faded; that Dr. George C. Butte, Republican nominee, was offering "more resistance than any Republican since the days of the Reconstruction." The reports held that the Republican Party of Texas is once more "a white man's affair." In the old days, only Negroes would vote...
...Major Robert W. Imbrie, U. S. Vice Consul at Teheran, Persian capital (TIME, July 28), . the populace had been filled with fearful forebodings. The murder, which was called by the Setareh Iran, Teheran journal, a "bloody stain on a page of glorious history," was responsible, apart from its international complexion, for a proclamation of martial law, the resignations of Premier Reza Khan's colleagues, a plethora of arrests. Persians knew someone must die for a foul crime...
...jury will sit for months upon furniture from Michigan. Earnest debates will only be interrupted long enough to bolt down meals prepared with advertised ingredients. That schoolgirl complexion will fade, and unkempt beards, which would defy, the most formidable blade, will hide the beauty of late model collars...
Selden, who said he was near enough to the man to catch hold of him, described him as about five feet four inches tall, around 25 years of age, of light build and light complexion...
...tien, meaning "Christian," hence "innocent." The Latin Christianus, again, was probably a translation of the older cretin, from crete (craie), a. chalky fuller's earth found in Crete, used by the Romans for coloring the face, especially by actors. A common mark of cretinism is a sallow, yellow earthy complexion...