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Negroes who want to hide their markings daub themselves with black coffee, potassium permanganate solution or dilute iodine. Will Pickens White last week indicated that he would never tint his whiteness. Said he: "God intended to let people know what He could do. Now that I am white, I would rather stay that...
...steed. Was it bright as the daylight or duller? Some dangerous doubts have been thrown On this animal's actual color, And the truth should be known. . . . There is growing unrest in the nation, The facts should at once be released: I demand a precise explanation Of the tint of Badoglio's beast: Was it mustard perhaps-out of pity For the traces of poisonous gas? Or did he ride into the city On a mule-or an ass? Marshal Badoglio rode into the Ethiopian capital on a small dapple-grey. Last week, 15 days after his triumphant...
...sore at my heart to confess, I do not like his large women too much. He doth seem to make a virtue of sheer flesh. But who be I to judge? One critic says: "To Rubens, flesh was enticing in its largeness, its soft luminosity, its creamy evenness of tint...and he painted it with more sense and joy and, as far as color is concerned, with more insight than any other man." Well, methinks, every man to his tastes...
...woman's daughter who stepped out of a Negro burlesque show into a life of adulation and luxury in Paris during the booming 1920's. In sex appeal to jaded Europeans of the jazz-loving type, a Negro wench always has a head start. The particular tawny tint of tall and stringy Josephine Baker's bare skin stirred French pulses. But to Manhattan theatre-goers last week she was just a slightly buck-toothed young Negro woman whose fig ure might be matched in any night club show, whose dancing & singing could be topped practically anywhere outside...
...Enoch Arnold Bennett described Swinnerton: "He tells authors what they ought to do and ought not to do. He is marvelously and terribly particular and fussy about the format of the books issued by the firm. Questions as to fonts of type, width of margins, disposition of title-pages, tint and texture of bindings really do interest him. And misprints-especially when he has read the proofs himself-give him neuralgia and even worse afflictions. . . . Medium height, medium looks, medium clothes, somewhat reddish hair, and lively eyes. If I had seen him in a motorbus I should never have said...