Word: nordics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peppy was Sandy and his band. While scientific tests may show that colored children have no more rhythm than their white school-mates there can be on possible dispute that the actors and actresses in "Hi-de-ho" achieve an ecstatic chaos of the human body that defies the Nordic...
Actually, Mary Alice Hearrell Murray is seven-eighths white, one-eighth Indian and she would be better described as a quiet, Nordic type, for her eyes are blue and her skin is light. As for her Chickasaw blood, she, like all Chickasaws, is proud of it and she would be proud to possess more...
...Rear Admiral Shiosawa remained in official command of the First Fleet, stationed at Shanghai, but Vice Admiral Nomura, higher ranking officer, arrived from Sasebo Naval Base as a sort of supervisor. Pleasant grey-haired Admiral Nomura, with many a friend in the U. S., looks startlingly Nordic. During the War he was Japanese naval attache at Washington. He was a member of the Japanese delegation to the Washington Arms Conference, and he brought a Japanese squadron to New York in 1929. His arrival at Shanghai was quite a social occasion. U. S. Vice Admiral Taylor's aide, Lieut. Henri...
...Adolf Hitler sat in Berlin giving press interviews as though he were already Chief of State. In Leipzig a congress of pharmacists and physicians turned into a typical Fascist rally. Hitlerite orators, drunk with the sound of their own voices, shouted their program to maintain the superiority of "the Nordic race, the finest flower on the tree of humanity." They mentioned the hanging of Marxists, abolition of trade unions, compulsory sterilization of Jews...
Senores los Diputados were a little uncertain what they should wear on this memorable occasion; costumes varied from full evening dress, frock coats, dinner jackets to sack suits. Just before the Presidential Promise was administered occurred one of those little contretemps so distressing to orderly Nordic minds. The shrill voice of Senora Alcala Zamora rose in loud lament in the lobby: "But I tell you Niceto forgot and went off with my tickets in his pockets!" Generals rushed to the rescue. Breathing hard. Senora Alcala Zamora eventually found a seat in the press gallery...