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Pinta, a tropical skin disease, caused by fungi which settle in the epidermis, permanently blotch the skin with patches of greyish violet or red. When the sickness runs its course, dark men are streaked dead white, fair men dull blue, sometimes tinged with green. (Mr. Wilson first saw green and blue men on a Colombia farm after a "night out".) Neither painful nor fatal, pinta is serious because it disfigures, is very infectious. It can be checked with antiseptic drugs, especially chrysarobin, powder obtained from a tropical tree, which is an ancient remedy of Indian herb doctors. But only tattooing...
...glance at these memorials, Joseph Stalin could see Russia's strategic condition. By a glance into a mirror, he could examine in a moment Russia's morale. He would see there two small, tired eyes under heavy lids; bristly upstanding greyish hair; a formidable, determined jaw. He would see weariness, and peasant cunning. He would see a very tough, strong face to go with a tough, strong past...
...wholesale notebook prices, and its owner worriedly predicted a further increase. Priority restrictions were damned by several men, who complained bitterly that they were having trouble getting metal goods. Chlorine, used in paper bleaching, is not now easily available for that purpose and future paper may have a slightly greyish appearance...
...parakeets, a sheaf of poppy blossoms-were untypically delicate and representational, most would have given Art Critic Hitler the galloping creeps. Head of a Woman (see cut) had a green face, red highlights in the black hair. In Small Girl With Tulips, the sad-looking child was colored a greyish blue, in contrast with the yellow and green flowers. Purely as water colors, the pictures were brilliant and velvety, carefully brushed on Japanese paper soaked in water. They confirmed what Nolde wrote of himself: "The devil lives in his limbs, divinity in his heart. . . . He sees not much, but other...
...pretty, not military, not smartly turned out (a greyish green overcoat and a chromium badge), not paid, but by all odds the biggest, most valuable and most womanly of British female war work units is the Women's Voluntary Service. Their big test came on the morning of Aug. 31, when the Ministry of Health flashed WVS's chief, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, to get the children and invalids out of urban danger spots...