Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dean's life work, the Back-to-Africa idea is not new. Paul Cuffee returned twelve slaves to West Africa, and their Liberia, founded 1822, was the first great movement. Bishop H. M. Turner, until Booker Washington silenced him in the '90s, advocated all U. S. Negroes to follow. Captain Harry Dean's call, issued at the turn of the Century, did not reach the race in a broadcast manner and was even less successful than the short-lived Black Star Line of Jamaica's Marcus ("Black Moses") Garvey, who was deported from...
...cynics, they recalled that the late great blind Joseph Pulitzer was called, in the '90s, "Father of Yellow Journalism.'"* More light on the award for 1928 was shed last week by Dr. Richard Eugene Burton, Chairman of the Award Committee...
...retirement of Frederick Freeman Proctor, Manhattan lost its oldest vaudeville tycoon. In the early '90s, Mr. Proctor went into partnership with the late Charles Frohman, and from this agreement resulted the famed old Charles Frohman Stock Company. In 1893, the Proctor 23rd Street Theatre (then up town) inaugurated continuous (10 a. m.-11 p. m.) performances. Before entering the vaudeville business, Mr. Proctor ran an unsuccessful Ten-Twenty-Thirty melodrama chain, and before that toured Europe as a circus acrobat. He was born in Dexter, Me., and began his career in the extremely unhistrionic capacity of errand...
...TIME, April 1). If the Senator made such statement, I would like to recall to his mind, when he must have seen them as many as three at a time, unless he was "seeing without eyes." This particular instance was about the time, in 1889, or the early '90s, when he was employed as a stenographer by Spike & Arnold, in Yakima, Wash., and one of his former employers, Sidney W. Arnold, was mixed in an election row with Sam. Vinson, Col. J. G. Boyle and G. W. Wilson, and in which, six-shooters were freely displayed along Yakima Avenues...
...realm of mystery and romance into the dangerous realism of thought and emotion?This Strange Adventure. Any woman?every woman? is the theme; but the particular woman Mrs. Rinehart chooses is a delicate soul, and what little spirit she has is crushed and twisted by circumstance. The proverbially gay '90s are sufficiently Victorian to give "Missie" a sense of duty toward her elders?always she defers to them, always she forfeits her own happiness. First there was her father upon whom she and the rest of the household danced attendance. Then there was her lonely mother?tragic fat wreck...