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...stone blind and "swelled up like a dead pig." His skin was an itching, burning rash. For two months he stayed in that condition. Then his sight returned and he began to improve. But, to his shame as a good Haitian, he was entirely white, not the sallow white of the albino, nor the blotched white of the syphilitic, but the white of the true Caucasian. His hair remained kinky...
...last week with steam up. Sailors were very busy about the deck. The rumor flashed through Havana that Gerardo Machado was about to skip the country. President Machado thereupon broke a silence of many months by inviting U. S. correspondents to the Presidential Palace to hear a statement. His sallow, pocked face broke into a friendly grin as he insisted that he had not the slightest intention of either resigning or running away...
...Even today only one "lame duck" (Mississippi's Collier) precedes him on the Committee over which he helped to> preside at last week's beer hearings. In all the 73rd Congress only one member of either House or Senate-North Carolina's tall, sallow-faced Pou. chairman of the Rules Committee-will have seen longer Capitol service than he. Farmer Rainey- Henry Thomas Rainey, inside the Capitol and out, remains "just an ordinary Congressman.'' His grandfather came out of Kentucky into Illinois in 1814, settled on the fat, flat farmlands of what is now Greene...
...late days of the Reign of Terror a sallow faced little man stood up in a spate of gunfire and shouted an order. A dirty Paris mob had started a street fight, and in the interests of peace it must be stopped. There was the rumble of caissons over the cobbles, the dull roar of cannon, the outcries of a dispersing crowd, and Napoleon had ordered his first artillery into action. From that time on his name was writ large on the map of Europe. The Alps, Italy, Egypt, Marengo, and the little figure came out of the mists...
Before a court at Bayonne last week appeared two sallow Spanish youths. On a tip from Spanish authorities at San Se bastian, French police had raided a little blue-timbered white house at St. Jean-de-Luz, had captured the two sallow youths and a large store of arms and ammunition fresh from U. S. factories. They confessed, and one more plot to restore long-jawed Alfonso XIII to the throne of Spain was bud-nipped...