Word: caucasian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second feature at the Met, Anything Can Happen, is also supposed to be an "A" film. It isn't. Anything Can Happen is a tedious tidbit about how Georgians from Russia can achieve success in America while still clinging tenaciously to the bizarre traditions of the Caucasian mountains. It relies heavily on pidgin English for its humor and Horatio Alger for its plot, and the net result shows that a cliche, even in dialect, is still a cliche...
...eleventh-hour attempt to escape penalties proposed by the Dartmouth Undergraduate Council, the college's Theta. Chi chapter yesterday voted unanimously to ignore the Caucasian restriction demanded by the fraternity's national board...
Except for the Negritos, the Filipinos are basically Malayan stock with a mixture of Caucasian and Mongolian. The U.S. Supreme Court once ruled that they are not Caucasians; the state of California has ruled that they are not Mongolians. The Filipinos' own smiling explanation: a god and goddess once inhabited the earth, got lonely and decided to create man. They fashioned a man out of clay and baked it in an oven, but it was overcooked and came out black. They tried another but it was undercooked and came out white. The third was cooked to a just-right...
...opening day, Superintendent Morrow sat back and waited. For the first time, "African and Caucasian" pupils filed into classrooms together. For the first time, so did "African and Caucasian" teachers. Books were distributed, assignments given out, and the year began. By last week Superintendent Morrow, flummoxed but happy, knew how his campaign had come out. "Why, it's working!" he cried...
...after all the mourners had gone, a cemetery official asked a strange question: "Was that boy an Indian?" While the coffin still rested above the grave, he explained that the cemetery articles of incorporation restrict it to "members of the Caucasian race." The body was taken back to the mortuary...