Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...director, her deserving of her medal was if anything heightened. The most glib and cocky of metropolitan critics could not deny that the towering pretensions of classicism had been fulfilled. On the vast stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, amid architecture massively austere, Miss Anglin, nobly ominous in black, was supported by a company sharing her earnestness and schooled by her to simplicity of gesture and the slow pace of portentous happenings. Their execution fell short of hers? Michael Strange (Mrs. John Barrymore) slipping sometimes into picayune realism in the role of Chrysothemis, Ruth Holt Boucicault being a trifle shallow...
High and low hurdles: Wells, Black...
...purpose of the Austin party to make a bird census of the Labrador coast. The effect of the relentless bird slaughter of the natives on bird life will be carefully studied. Among the birds who will be studied are the Great Black Backed Gull, Glaucus Gull, Herring, Gull, Puffins, Razor Billed Aul, Black Guillemot, and Arctic Tern...
...Briton, the Jew, the Asiatic, the half-caste?with each she deals separately because each is in himself an entity. South Africa, she seems to say, is a melting pot that lacks a fire. Finally she considers the Kaffirs. These, a brown Northern people who conquered the native blacks at the time of the Dutch Discovery in the 17th Century, are now the cheap labor class. They are the burden which the white man has been too weak to carry but not too weak to destroy. At the heart of the mat- ter Author Millin feels that: "The black...
...heart, so he needs no score. An observer crowded into the hallway might see the pale little fellow's reflection in one of the tall rococo gilded mirrors that reach to the ceiling. His hair is not cut short like most boys'. His eyes are so brightly black one wonders at the Gallo family's assurance of his recovery from recent illness. He raps for attention quite oblivious of the incongruity of his command. Some of the musicians follow his baton with flashes of pride, for they too are Gallos, and this Gallo boy is the world...