Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painless substitute for the hypodermic needle was reported last week. The revolutionary gadget, called the "hypospray," is a kind of air gun that shoots an injection under the skin in a spray so fine that the patient usually does not feel...
...under my skin the way the Dartmouths kept saying what fruits the Harvards...
Greying, blue-eyed Walter White, for 16 years executive secretary of the Na tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has a skin so light that he frequently has to explain that he is, in deed, a Negro. Last week, in the Saturday Review of Literature, Propagandist White talked openly about a subject many Ne groes are careful to avoid: the Negro who lives secretly as a white man. Wrote he : "Every year approximately 12,000 white-skinned Negroes disappear - people whose absence cannot be explained by death or emigration. Nearly every one of the 14 million discernible Negroes...
...cigar on a cane and wonders if "there was ever a plot so complicated and yet so thin." Probably not; but the sting of the conjecture is mitigated by Clark's shenanigans, proceeding, as he does, to make the Victor Herbert musical noteworthy indeed. The stumpy comic with the skin-tight specs and vaudeville mannerisms compensates for the shortcomings of the rewritten plot, and should satisfy all but those with tin ears and antediluvian morals...
...named "Doctor" Graham. For his lecture on The Female, Graham used a half-clad model called the Goddess of Health (she was the beauty who became Lady Hamilton). For another, on Earth-Bathing, he sat naked in a pit of earth while explaining how much better it made his skin and blood feel. The big feature was the Celestial Bed, which would "rectify such physical impediments as impotence and sterility." To use it for a night, with unascertained results, a childless duke paid Graham a fee of 500 guineas...