The little face appears, and I can distinguish the high cheek bones of Indian blood, the flattened nose and slight kink of negro, and the faint trace of white-probably of some long forgotten Dutch sailor, who came and went to Guiana, while New York City was still a browsing ground for moose.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
Georgie Gwynne, installed by the Royal Observer, saucy and unabashed, was saying: "Well, kink, how do you like us?"
"The Salamander"
Owen Johnson
And then the picture did a sort of moving-picture fade-out, and black Lottie came running with her hair grotesquely greased and flattened to take out the kink, and gave her a drink of water with the addition of two drops from a bottle, and turned on the night light and went back to bed.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst