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...eyelashes, like a spreading peacock's tail, weigh down the lids over her enormous snake-like eyes . . . She is cadaverously thin ... the most easily recognizable face I know and ... the most luscious . . . cheeks like huge acid pink peonies . . . eyelashes built out with hot liquid paint to look like burnt matches . . . Her sullen, discontented, rather evil rosebud of a mouth is painted the brightest scarlet . . . shiny as ... strawberry...
Nine floats, depicting the various phases of Dewey's life, rolled past the grandstand: Dewey building a bobsled at eleven, riding in a Model T ("College Years"), a climactic float showing him seated in the White House. Young men with burnt cork mustaches impersonated him in his adult years...
...bleak Ungava,* the stunted tamarack had turned burnt amber and each morning light snow frosted the tough caribou moss. For the engineers probing the biggest iron ore deposit since Minnesota's Mesabi, it was time to call it a summer. Day after day a little Norseman seaplane dipped down on to Quebec and Labrador lakes, picked up men and supplies, moved them back to the main base at Burnt Creek (pop. 190). This week the twelve drills were operating close by Burnt Creek. Next week they would be silent, and the year's work would...
...rich was the lode that drilling was done only where ore could be reached readily. One of the best deposits was found by accident when a new-type drill was tested at the Burnt Creek camp site. The drill bit down into the earth, struck rich ore at two feet, was still in it when drilling was stopped at 367 feet...
...government regarded Henry as "an unsafe man" and consistently refused to promote him beyond a certain point. Much wonder that he was able to say, "When I sit in the garden in the cool of the evening ... I feel as if I never could go home. India has burnt itself into me and I dread the cold and wet country of my birth...