Word: skins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hall is winter. It is in her eyes. It is in the leaden quality of her skin. It lies along her frosty-looking lips, which sag at the corners...
...Negro newspaper reporters on its staff; 'but. the managing editor of the World evidently decided he had best not send any of these to South Carolina to look into the Lowman mess. The presumption is that the reporter Oliver H. P. Garrett at least has a white skin...
...expert. The Judge ordered an acquittal. In the mind of the jurymen, the judges, the clerk, the counsel might have been the belief that this man, an arch criminal, had found a way to change the markings on the pads of his fingers. Honest Feit smiled, wrinkling the skin around his wart. He walked away a free...
...puzzle unpleasant in the unravelling. To see a tiny bit of pig skin move back and forth in the zig zag of modern football remain among the few stalwart pleasures of modern life. And when those who do the zig zaggling represent Yale and Harvard the journey of the Ten Thousand is purely a Fighteous crusade and Cerberus not half the monster that he might be longjours landace pour le sport...
Georgia is the marriageable daughter, doll-like, laughing, dreamy, but "smart where the skin's off." Randall Oliver is her forbidden suitor, a cool young elegant, tailored by Rambeaux & Rambeaux of Memphis; and Charles Boardman, whom Georgia later married, rides off to college with a slave, two horses, dogs and his gun. Such central story as the book has is that of Cousin Ellen Stark, who comes to "Heaven Trees" from chill and granite Vermont, there to unfold from a pale violet of a girl into the rarest Southern orchid of them...