Word: staines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside the crib were two newly killed Japs. One's shirtfront was purplish with spreading stain. The other's face was crimson with his blood. These men had not been up to suicide. They had waited stolidly in their hole to be killed...
Plenty Bandicoot. Nawnim became Norman, was sent to be educated in the caste-free South, accepted his "cigaret-stain" skin as a legacy from his mother (a Javanese princess, Oscar assured him). He returned to Oscar's farm a trained mechanic, looked like a "Rajah." The girls shouted when they saw him, "Oozit . . . Mygawdaineeflash ! " Abysmally unprepared for the Jim Crow strait jacket of Capricornia, he got an idea of his status from the white insults and the black friendliness...
Acute directorial touch: a saboteur, who has wrecked a food train, comes home for dinner; when he takes off his jacket, he reveals a slight, honest detail rarely seen in U.S. movies: the stain of underarm sweat on his shirt sleeves...
Between interviews he often got a summons from the judge on the bench. Perhaps it was to test the reliability of a witness; perhaps it was to prove that a stain was blood. He found cross-examinations mentally invigorating, soon learned that he could nonplus storming attorneys if he kept smiling no matter how galling their insinuations...
...story, dated and ludicrous, is relieved only occasionally by a few amusing and probably unintentional remarks, as well as the frequent appearance of Hedy Lamarr clad in nothing but a lurong and a quart of stain. As a savage the Austrian-born star is far from convincing, however, despite her interpretation of a native hooch cooch dance that is more a la Old Howard than African...