Word: skins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night, bundles them up, poises for flight, then goes back to bed. Lucy's woe is his lost estates; he finally hangs himself, arrayed in Aunt Teresa's silk underwear, stockings and boudoir cap. Georges' is the stink that Beastly makes shaving; Beastly has a tender skin and has to burn his beard off. Aunt Teresa's is her health and the death of her son Anatole, court-martialed in France...
Rubber Garments, worn around fatted calfs, hips, breasts, abdomens, are injurious to health, said Homeopath G. Harlan Wells. They keep the skin from eliminating its poisons...
...than the others; it was not mis-hapen, and it was unmarked except for a few minutes bulging sores. Yet if gave her an indefinable and malign impression of deformity, of horror. She sent the boy attached to the hand-one Frank George, 11-to Dr. E. D. Newman, skin specialist. A short time afterward this medico asked to see the boy's brother, one Hale George, 13. The two boys did not return to school. There was some whispering and then, without ostentation, the books and desks which they had used were burned. Their parents had emigrated from...
...outskirts of a parade ground were thousands of Zulu tribesmen. In the centre were 5,000 warriors, naked except for loincloths of leopard skin. On their left arms they carried shields, in their right hands their famous assagais (spears). On their heads were enormous spreading headdresses of black feathers. They began a kind of dance, worked themselves up through weird contortions to a "terrific frenzy" that was accompanied by blood-curdling yells and "dirgelike singing of the women." The visit of the Prince had the effect of healing a long-standing breach between the Usutu (Royalists) and the Mandhlakazi...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS-Eugene O'Neill bites below the thick skin of New England farmer loneliness. Infidelity in the foothills...