Word: skins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...iron-barred cages she sat, shorn of her power, glowering at the court officials, scowling at the Carabinieri?an old woman, with wrinkled skin, ferocious mien, coarse features. None doubted that a death, too long delayed, according to the Sicilians, would be her fate...
...classes. But every one moves faster than usual. There is a hustle and a bustle and an under-current of excitement. Today at 1 o'clock classes stop and the college, in toto, will "peerade," as they call it, to Boston for the Harvard game. Students clad in coon-skin coats will leave in big cars. Boys in sweatshirts and sweaters will drive down in ramshackle Fords. Many will go on the special trains. A few will work their way down. Others will bum their way. But all will go. No one stays behind...
Black Velvet. This title is descriptive of skin pigments in blackamoors, the play descriptive of events surrounding the liason of a nice white boy with a jaunty yellow girl. It intends to describe a changing era in the South. The central figure is a bewildered Southern gentleman with whiskers, who finds that the Negroes no longer obey him; that reverence and elegance play little part in modern industrial life. These various factors are knit into an uneven play which kills four people (three offstage) every evening. Arthur Byron,* usually urbane and neatly pressed, does well with the bewhiskered ancient...
...that this combat might have had is in the characters of the principals. One was touted--to the death--as a student prince; the other made an odd comeback to popularity by emphasizing those qualities which once made him an unpopular champion--brute force and a marvelous thickness of skin as regards what the public had to say concerning him. The gentlemen met before, in Philadelphia, and each would have been much happier were the other dear charmer away. Their second encounter proved more interesting, in its preliminary bombast, than the first; due to the burst of note-writing proclivities...
...light's arc becomes the hottest spot on earth-38,000° Fahrenheit. Quartz prisms in the 62-inch globe absorb so much of this heat that the light, passing off with an intensity of 1,385,000,000 candle power,* will not blister the skin of persons keeping more than 1,000 feet distant. Engineers predicted that on clear nights the Monticello beam, if aimed vertically, would be visible to the naked eye 600 miles away. U. S. astronomers were advised not to suppose that the in creased luminosity of their horizon heralded the arrival...