Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis wash woman's daughter who stepped out of a Negro burlesque show into a life of adulation and luxury in Paris during the booming 1920's. In sex appeal to jaded Europeans of the jazz-loving type, a Negro wench always has a head start. The particular tawny tint of tall and stringy Josephine Baker's bare skin stirred French pulses. But to Manhattan theatre-goers last week she was just a slightly buck-toothed young Negro woman whose fig ure might be matched in any night club show, whose dancing & singing could be topped practically...
...engraving in particular illustrates this devotion to realistic detail. Objects of the least significance to the central theme pop up in odd corners of the picture, and a small insect placed near the feet of the Virgin for no apparent reason and drawn with biological accuracy has caused this picture to be known as "The Holy Family with Grasshopper...
...honest consideration of both sides must uphold Mr. Paley and the stand he has taken in the particular instance; the larger issue, however, transcends both Mr. Paley and the Honorable Henry, and presents itself to the Federal Radio Commission and the legislature which passed the Communications Act of 1934. Broadcasting is too important a thing to be left in the limbo of moot. In the hands of a political mountebank it is a tool that can be insidiously dangerous to honest government...
...Indeed, the annual beating administered by the Holy Cross Relay team to the Crimson runners has become almost an institution at the Knights of Columbus games. When Mr. Bingham refused to enter the whole team in the winter meets this year, sportswriters in general and the local promoters in particular castigated...
Whirling into Cowperthwaite from Memorial Drive, a small car sent shivers of concern down the spines of helpless onlookers. Their fears, however, were premature. The tiny darling tripped suddenly yet daintily to the certain safety of the sidewalk, hastily exclaiming to no one in particular...