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...ripe beauty of southern darkness, a, deep bronze brown, like her bare arms. . . . She began her strange rites in a 'voice full of shoutin' and moanin' and prayin' and sufferin', a wild, rough Ethiopian voice, harsh and volcanic, released between rouged lips and the whitest of teeth, the singer swaying slightly to the rhythm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bessie's Blues | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

Cried Dudley Field Malone, famed lawyer: "Jimmy Walker [see p. 13] is the whitest, most loyal, most honorable, most lovable character I have ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 6, 1932 | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

Here's to Hibben, we call him Jack- The whitest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Whitest Man | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...Armistice stopped him. Though a Feldmarschall, he never wore a general's uniform and pickelhaube (spiked helmet) but always the broad black fur cap of the Death's Head Hussars, whose colonel-in-chief he was. He never, even for the sake of camouflage, rode anything but the whitest of horses. Unlike Ludendorff, who now is going crazy, he never proclaimed himself a God-inspired military genius, or even took personal credit for his armies' triumphs. Almost feminine in grace, he of all the German generals never failed to kiss the hand of his close friend and chief, Kaiser Wilhelm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Good Old Kultur | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Biblical tamarisk manna is not to be confused with the manna of the manna ash tree (Fraxinns ornus) cultivated commercially on the frassinetti (plantations) around Palermo, Sicily. The manna ash are the trees visitors in Palermo in early summer see blooming with clusters of whitest flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Manna | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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