Word: whitish
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...method of collecting the juice from the poppy is laborious. After the leaves of the flower have fallen and the capsules have assumed a whitish color, they are punctured in the evening with a small three-pronged instrument. The following morning, the juice, having exuded and thickened by exposure ot the air, is scraped off by a small iron instrument previously dipped in oil. It is then worked in a heated pot until it is thick and can be formed into cakes about four pounds in weight. The cakes are than packed in leaves to prevent them sticking together...
...delight of the older generation, Michael and Fleur finally permitted an eleventh baronet to come into the world, and the final happiness of all concerned was only qualified by the symbolic significance of a picture bequeathed by a dying Forsyte. It was a Chinese work, depicting a "large whitish sidelong monkey, holding the rind of a squeezed fruit in its outstretched paw." The picture is commented on as a perfect allegory. "Eat the fruits of life, scatter the rinds, and get copped doing it," says one of its observers; ... a monkey's eyes are the human tragedy incarnate...
...this passed in complete dark ness. . . . Hardly had a match which he held in his fingers gone out when he heard, close to his face, a loud burst of laughter which echoed over the whole house. He saw a white cloud in front of him, and two wisps of whitish light issuing from his nostrils. It was too much! The observer felt his courage giving...