[permalink] [id link]
The face of Raggedy Ann is a color-reversed minstrel mask, and Raggedy Ann's creator, Johnny Gruelle, designed the doll in part with the antics of blackface star Fred Stone in mind.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
face and Raggedy
Gruelle created Raggedy Ann for his daughter, Marcella, when she brought him an old hand-made rag doll and he drew a face on it.
He drew a face on the doll and named her Raggedy Ann.
face and Ann
Kings Row is a 1942 film starring Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, and Ronald Reagan that tells a story of young people growing up in a small American town at the turn of the twentieth century, beset by social pressure, dark secrets, and the challenges and tragedies one must face as a result of these hard facts.
He attempted to save face by shutting down production on November 20, 1991, firing head writer John Romano, and replacing him with Ann Marcus.
When the little boy walks away from the accident, she assumes he is all right, but never learns of the fatal consequences, or the harassment his parents, Howard ( Bruce Davison ) and Ann Finnigan ( Andie MacDowell ), must face from the local baker ( Lyle Lovett ) who is livid because Casey's birthday cake was never picked up.
Smiley then visits his estranged wife, Ann, and makes a point of cutting all relations with her, deliberately shedding his illusions ( Karla previously described Ann as ' the last illusion of an illusionless man ') as he prepares to face down his greatest foe.
When the couple comes home from a date very late one night, Ann berates the man, but when Julie gets in Ann's face (" You lonely, Ma?
Fleming's wife Ann had joined him in Les Avants and the couple then moved on to Naples, where Fleming interviewed Lucky Luciano, finding him " a neat, quiet, grey-haired man with a tired good-looking face.
Besides breast augmentation, Julia Ann also had labiaplasty and a nose job ( to remove the aftereffects of a broken nose suffered when a horse kicked her in the face ).
The figure returns the Harlequin costume to the Doctor's room then goes to a room where Ann is lying, and a hideously deformed face is revealed.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Sally Ann Howes lent her face to many products, of which a few are mentioned here:
After a confrontation with Warren and Ann Thorn at the Thorn Museum, she becomes unsure as to whether Damien's face matches the painting on Yigael's Wall.
Just as it seems that Miss Rich is the murderer, Mrs. Upjohn enters the room having been recalled from her holiday in Anatolia and identifies by face the woman she had seen through Mrs Bulstrode's window: Ann Shapland, who is well known in intelligence circles as a ruthless espionage agent and a mercenary.
* Moira J. Maguire: " The changing face of catholic Ireland: Conservatism and Liberalism in the Ann Lovett and Kerry Babies Scandal " In: feminist studies.
face and is
On the face of it, it is because he employs deductive techniques alien to official police routine.
Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.
Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.
In the face of the unfolding universe, our ultimate attitude is that of wonder.
For there is also the `` face of reality '' in the form of the individual's perceptions of his own abilities and interests, of the objective possibilities open to him, of the familial and other social pressures to which he is exposed.
The pessimism of the young is defiant, anxious to confess or even exaggerate its ostensible gloom, and so exuberant as to reveal the fact that it regards its ability to face up to the awful truth as more than enough to compensate for the awfulness of that truth.
Daughter of a gypsy mother who taught her to dance, she is one of the few really beautiful girls in the New York Casbah, with dark eyes and dark, waist-length hair, the face of an adolescent patrician and a lithe, glimmering body.
All he cares about is his whisky and that dry crack in his face.
The ideal girl -- possessed of talent, poise, intelligence, personality and beauty of face and figure -- is chosen each year to represent Rhode Island.
A Barrette Swiss pattern file is handy since its triangular shape with only one cutting face will allow you to work a surface without marring an adjoining one.
The concept of the strain energy as a Gibbs function difference Af and exerting a force normal to the shearing face is compatible with the information obtained from optical birefringence studies of fluids undergoing shear.
He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.
Af is the friction force between chip and knife surfaces, and P is the normal force acting on the face of the knife.
It seems to me, the first thing you've got to do, to be happy, is to face up to your problems, no matter what they may be.
Most people do not realize that the congregation, as a gathered fellowship meeting regularly face to face, personally sharing in a common experience and expressing that experience in daily relationships with one another, is unique.
It is not helping them face the moral crisis involved in the use of nuclear energy.
Your first impression of this elongated square with its three elegant fountains, its two churches that almost face each other, and its russet-colored buildings, is a sense of restful spaciousness -- particularly welcome after wandering around the narrow and dark streets that you have followed since starting this walk.
It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.
The largest hurdle the Republicans would have to face is a state law which says that before making a first race, one of two alternative courses must be taken: 1
All of this is true and all of it is totally meaningless in the face of the Kirov's utterly captivating presentation.
And there is the bright note: The gains were achieved in the face of temporary traffic lags late in 1960 and early in 1961 as a result of business recession.
face and minstrel
" Golly ", as he later affectionately came to be called, had a jet-black face ; wild, woolly hair ; bright, red lips ; and sported formal minstrel attire.
A popular form of theatre during this time was the minstrel show, which featured white ( and sometimes, especially after the Civil War, black ) actors dressed in " blackface ( painting one's face, etc.
He appears dressed as a circus master and has a face like a black and white minstrel.
His face really is black and white like a minstrel, and he has to paint over it with make up to appear normal.
Papa learned the makeup skills to cover his minstrel face from his various wives.
face and mask
Poet shook his head, sliding his face mask up on his forehead.
Pulling off her face mask, she carefully placed the spear gun across the stern, then lifted her wet hair from her back and squeezed out the water.
Her face was frozen into the mask of a mannequin, her body absolutely motionless.
The rubber and glass face mask slipped from Poet's forehead, bounced painlessly off Nick's chin, then disappeared.
Brown is often credited with inventing and patenting the single-bar face mask.
" A particularly nasty poster appeared, showing a head with a POUM mask being ripped off to reveal a Swastika-covered face beneath.
A gas mask is a mask put on over the face to protect the wearer from inhaling airborne pollutants and toxic gases.
The mask forms a sealed cover over the nose and mouth, but may also cover the eyes and other vulnerable soft tissues of the face.
Hold the breath and close the eyes, pulling the gas mask out of its carrying case and put the mask on, exhale hard to purge any contaminants from the interior of the mask, put a hand over the canister hole, and take a breath: the mask should collapse onto the face to provide a seal.
Primitive respirator examples were used by miners and introduced by Alexander von Humboldt already in 1799, when he worked as a mining engineer in Prussia ; long before that there was a Plague doctor's bird beak shaped mask / face piece filled with herbs.
The new helmet and facemask are black just like the old ones, but when light hits the new ones a certain way, both the helmet and face mask will sparkle with a shiny teal appearance.
Due to his badly disfigured face he always wore a mask.
Optional equipment includes one or two gloves, wristbands, kneepads ( mandatory in some clubs ), spurs, face mask, and a whip.
Additionally, the team pays tribute to other uniform features from their history by wearing a metallic white helmet, with a navy face mask, the newly revamped bolt in gold with navy and powder blue trim, and white pants.
Fernez's goggles didn't allow a dive deeper than ten metres due to " mask squeeze ", so, in 1933, Le Prieur replaced all the Fernez equipment ( goggles, noseclip and valve ) by a full face mask, directly supplied with constant flow air from the cylinder.
The " lack of sentimentality and the brutality of things " that Hooper noticed while watching the local news, whose graphic coverage was epitomized by " showing brains spilled all over the road ", led to his belief that " man was the real monster here, just wearing a different face, so I put a literal mask on the monster in my film ".
Upon discovering a human skull beneath a gold death mask in one of the tombs, he declared: " I have gazed upon the face of Agamemnon ".
Several mask treatments combine the enzyme with hydrogen peroxide on the face with the intent of increasing cellular oxygenation in the upper layers of the epidermis.
It is traditional to paint the face with lipstick as a humble substitute of a mask.
However, the mere presence of animals that talk does not make a tale a fairy tale, especially when the animal is clearly a mask on a human face, as in fables.
2.535 seconds.