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...parishioner calls him) is accustomed to rule his flock like a benign autocrat. Indeed he and his officers are empowered to declare vacant any of the numerous posts in the church. But last week Pastor Powell was meeting open defiance-from the Friendly Society's president, a tall, blue-black West Indian named Samuel Skerritt. Six months ago, recalling that the Friendly Society books had not been audited for four years, Pastor Powell asked for a look at them. Samuel Skerritt seemed evasive. And when Pastor Powell kept on asking for those books, Brother Skerritt continued to seem evasive...
Lead is a cumulative poison, long exposure to which destroys nerves; makes wrists droop; puts a blue-black margin on the gums; causes colic. Chronic lead poisoning is hard to cure. At the Cleveland meeting of the American Medical Association (TIME, June 25), however, Dr. Irving Gray of Brooklyn recounted his success in expelling lead...
Shadows. During the original trial Sir Joseph maintained consistently that the Hahn portrait was an 18th Century copy of the Louvre picture. Dark shadows in Mme Halm's Belle were painted with true ultramarine, a blue-black made from ground lapis lazuli, that richest of blue minerals, found chiefly in Afghanistan and Siberia, now used almost exclusively for jewelry. Harry Hahn has procured documents from the French national archives proving that lapis, expensive but available during the Renaissance, was unobtainable in 18th Century Paris. One was a letter from Louis XVI's minister at Constantinople to Catherine...
Along the mighty Alps great, dense, blue-black clouds discharged their heavy burdens of warm rain for many hours. Snow and ice became water as the endless rain from the sky beat down on the glaciers and a hundred snow-capped summits. Little pools formed and overflowed into rivulets and tore down the sides of the ravines into the streams that gurgled and splashed in their headlong course to the mightier rivers they feed...
Lacoste v. Tilden. The finals . . . RenÉ Lacoste, a leading, eellike man with blue-black hair, with dark circles under his eyes . . . Tilden, long arms and long legs covering the court like a madcap daddylonglegs . . . both confident . . . both using every weapon of the game, tantalizing chop-strokes, lobs, uncanny placements, cannonballs . . . Lacoste injuring a leg trying to recover a Tilden cannonball . . . Tilden being called three times for foot faults by Allan Muhr, umpire from the U. S. . . . Tilden arguing with Muhr...