Word: skins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Blue makes friends with Man Jay, the settlement's bad boy and with Cooch, the bad little girl who knows "where babies come from and everything." Best of all he likes Cricket, a little orphaned "bright skin" girl, half white, half black. She lives with Blue's Uncle Wes and his wife Missie, works in the cotton fields, whips the okra bushes to make them bear. Everybody prophesies a bad end for the "bright skin," warns Blue to keep away from...
...York, "to pleasure herself," not to be lionessed. At home the local colored folk know that "Miss Julia" has put them in books, do not much care. Negro intelligentsiacs agree with the whites ? that Authoress Peterkin writes accurately, vividly of the Gullah Negroes. Equally vivid, Bright Skin gives a broader picture of Gullah life than Scarlet Sister Mary, Though Ethel Barrymore made no stage success of Scarlet Sister Mary, this time cinemen are reported to be dickering for the rights already...
...great areas of his body are denuded of the skin and other agencies which help regulate body temperature. A cool breeze chills him. Hence his oven, a hood of sheet steel over his bed. Four big electric bulbs keep him comfortable at 103° F. His head, shoulders and arms are outside his hot box. Thus he can read, play cards, shake hands with visitors. His doctors hope to graft skin on him some day. Last week he cheered himself & his family thus: "They told me a guy is a dead soldier if more than one-third of his body...
...adventures in childish asceticism, giving away all his toys, pricking his cheeks with oleander leaves, ended when his father made him give some strips of his skin to graft on a peasant's arm. From the family attic he stole a mummified arm, scared a schoolboy into fits with it. Childhood came to an end when he was sent off to learn from a priest. On his way home after the interview he passed a dead willow, with a hollow branch that looked like a snake's head. Into the hollow he stuck the contents of his pockets...
...without regard to ability to pay. Mockingly they declared that the only thing exempt would be admission to a bread line. Some hotheads even denied the necessity of balancing the Budget by taxation at all. To each & every critic of the sales tax, secretly afraid of losing his political skin in the next election, acting Chairman Crisp calmly retorted: "Where else can you raise the necessary money...