Word: dauphin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 12,000,000 Negroes at hand. U. S. doctors have seen only two who turned completely white during life-one in Boston, one in Cincinnati. Last week a third specimen, Jean-Joseph Dauphin, arrived in Manhattan from the black Republic of Haiti. Blanched M. Dauphin carried a letter from Dr. Rulx Leon, director general of Haiti's public health service. The letter commended M. Dauphin to the attention of U. S. scientists. But immigration officers detained M. Dauphin at Ellis Island because he is illiterate. Later they let him proceed to the Chicago meeting of the Association...
Haitians call deliberate blanching "ouarization." They call darkening "haitianization." Jean-Joseph Dauphin "ouarized" himself by accident last summer. He asked his father, a brewer of herbs, for some "ouarit" beans to cure his asthma. The ouarit, sometimes called sea bean, is an oval, black-striped red bean about the size of a large lima bean. Jean-Joseph Ysmeon Dauphin's father told him to take only a speck of ouarit at a time, because the bean was an aphrodisiac. Jean-Joseph is 57. Suffering, he decided to kill or cure. He took a whole bean each day for five...
President Stenio Vincent of Haiti called on "ouarized" Jean-Joseph Dauphin. Haitian doctors examined him and the ouarit bean. They suspect traces of cyanide in the bean, hope U. S. investigators will discover the cause of the transformation...
Last week Jean-Joseph Dauphin was loyally struggling to "haitianize" himself by exposing himself to the sun. The tips of his ears were beginning to turn black again...
...unpopularity. The first, ''The Austrian," was founded strictly on fact. Fifteenth and next-to-last child of Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria. Marie Antoinette was condemned by her scheming mother, by the diplomatic system of Europe, to be a political pawn. Married off young to the French Dauphin, lethargic Louis XVI ("whose greatest achievement was to go to bed at eleven o'clock every night") she soon found her married life was to have no pretense of love, not even (until Louis finally consented to an operation) a chance of children. Though scandal surrounded her, Biographer Anthony...