Word: caucasian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does her best with the meagre opportunities Through The Night offer her. More impressive vehicles in which she has appeared include: Beyond The Horizon, Back Pay, A Good Bad Woman. Hot Rhythm. Producers of Negro reviews almost always make the mistake of trying to ape the elegance of contemporary Caucasian extravaganzas, as though afraid that just dancing and crooning- at which blackamoors often excel whites- are not sufficient for an evening's entertainment. For this reason, the comedy of Hot Rhythm is often unfunny, the attempt at magnificence unimpressive. Best, most natural humor in the show is offered...
...form the Church of Christ in China (communicants now 120,000). Dissident Presbyterians keep up the old church organization. Presbyterians are the most potent Protestants in China. It happens now that both the Chinese head of the Church of Christ in China, Dr. Cheng-Ching-yi, and the Caucasian head, Dr. Raymond Kepler, are Presbyterians...
Earthquake Zones. Why do earthquakes so often recur in the same places? Writes the erudite Montessus, whose world seismological map is speckled with nearly 160.000 quakes: "The earth's crust trembles almost only along two narrow bands which lie along great circles of the earth, the Mediterranean, or Alpino-Caucasian- Himalayan Circle; and the Circum-Pacific or Ando-Japanese-Malayan Circle." Fifty-three percent of all recorded earthquakes have occurred on the first of these, the Eurasian earthquake belt (see map, p. 23). Neatly tucked in the western end of this belt is much-troubled Naples...
...vases contain the skeletons of children sacrificed to some forgotten god; in a golden tomb lies the skeleton of a dead white woman who was part queen and part divinity. As Count de Prorok's party cross the desert in specially equipped cars- they meet a contemporary Caucasian tribe whose beautiful women wear no veils but whose men veil their faces and use rouge from boyhood...
...Cincinnati, Miss Florence E. Weaver bequeathed her estate of $609,000 providing that it first be held at accrued interest for 500 years. The eventual amount: 24 quadrillion dollars. The purpose: to house crippled children, build parks, aid "the poor of the Caucasian race...