Word: arna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jones built up an interracial (50-50) faculty, soon boasted Negro names like Sociologist Charles S. Johnson, Librarian-Author Arna W. Bontemps (St. Louis Woman), the late Poet James Weldon Johnson. Northern Negroes, reversing the usual tide, began to go South to Fisk. (1946 enrollment: 1,034, with 48% from above the Mason-Dixon line. In 1926, all but 11% were Southern Negroes...
...Louis Woman (book by Arna Bontemps & the late Countee Cullen; music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by Johnny Mercer; produced by Edward Gross) shows something more than musicomedy's aspirations but something less than its appeal. An all-Negro period yarn of the '90s, it pins its faith almost entirely on its story and its music. But the story is too trite and trumped-up to deserve such prominent treatment. The music, which therefore needs to be specially engaging, is no more than agreeable...
...bounds" their Polish prisoners, imported to do the farm work left by Hitler's fighting men. In Mainz a special court convicted Frau Maria Frey of allowing hers "repeatedly to hug and kiss her and replying to these caresses," sentenced her to 18 months' imprisonment. Frau Arna Strauch, convicted more succinctly of adultery, was sentenced to two years and four months. Both were deprived of citizenship for three years...
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