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...African Gold Coast Negro who once spent six months in Addis Ababa, and had fled to the U. S. in a hurry to escape arrest for fraud. More quaint was the other "Ethiopian" exposed in Tokyo last week. On removing from his face a mixture of soot and cold cream, police discovered that they had a Japanese college student. Taro Yamada. No prankster, Mr. Yamada had turned himself from yellow to black because he believed that today an Ethiopian would prove irresistible to the Japanese waitress of his desires...
Down the chimney into the study of Rhode Island's Governor Theodore Francis ("All-Round") Green streaked a bolt of lightning, smashing bric-a-brac to smithereens, showering everything, including the Governor, with soot. Said he: "I'll need a bath...
...amiable young mistress; the Knoedler Galleries' 'Joseph Accused By Potiphar's Wife. Among the Rijksmuseum's own canvases were Rembrandt's three most famed paintings, The March-Out of Captain Banning Cocq's Company of Amsterdam Musketeers, long miscalled The Night Watch because soot in the Harquebusiers' clubroom had murked the canvas; Dr. Deyman's Anatomy Lesson, rated far higher than the Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp painted 24 years earlier; and The Syndics of the Cloth Hall...
Aware of the cinders-&-soot nuisance in early sleeping cars, Professor Laird considered that factor removed by modern fine-mesh screens in Pullman windows- an assumption which many a traveler would dispute...
...bare toes in the gutter, asked newshawks: "There isn't anything wrong with shorts, is there?'' Last month, clad in men's shorts and a shirt, Mrs. Holmsen rode from Manhattan to Reno on the observation platform of her train, got so dirty from soot that ''a dignified gentleman" threatened to have her put off the train as a blackamoor. In Reno, still in shorts but without shoes or stockings, she entered a restaurant bar, was chased out by a head waiter...