Word: skin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native owner under Dutch rule is neither cheated nor expected to show the commercial genius of a Firestone or a Ford. He sits back in his Rolls-Royce (literally), draws his rent, smokes cigars about the color of his skin, and frequently elects to go about as ill-clad as Mr. Gandhi...
...rhythm of "The Peanut Vendor" is best grasped by spectators at the Carnival of the blacks in Santiago de Cuba. On this annual occasion the town is turned over to the dark of skin, who dominate locally. Everything goes, without police interference, and no opportunities are wasted...
...blood, causing fever and other malaise. By and by they drill into the heart and other muscles and the thyroid and adrenal glands, bone marrow and brain, where they change their form and multiply. Their spreading through the heart muscle may cause death. The adrenal attack colors the skin bronze. The thyroid infection causes an idiocy...
...wide, 12½ in. long. Nimble Mr. Brawermann then tore the strings out of a tennis racquet, climbed through the frame. Next he took off his shirt, lay on a bed of 1,200 spikes, permitted people to walk over him. When he got up his skin was unbroken. Five feet five inches tall, weighing 150 lb., Mr. Brawermann said that he had never been on the stage, had just picked up his tricks by practicing 15 min. a day. Explained he: "It gives me a good appetite...
Investigation of the affairs of defunct Caldwell & Co. (TIME, Nov. 24 et seq.) has revealed many a skin-tight alliance between the banking interests of Rogers Clark Caldwell and the newspaper-political interests of his crony, Col. Luke Lea. Last week a federal grand jury pried into the affairs not of the big Caldwell-controlled bank of Tennessee but the smaller Holston-Union National Bank of Knoxville which went under early in the storm caused by the failure of Caldwell & Co. What the jury found was not pleasing. Contemplation of it lead to what many southerners had long expected...