Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toms, torches, a naked black woman stretched on a hide...
...middle of the jungle, at midnight, near Eshowe, capital of Zululand, a lean witch-doctor pranced around a naked black woman while tom-toms rustled and torches veered. A clay pot filled with earth from a slain chief's grave lay in a pit above which the woman was stretched on a hide; the witch-man leaped high, making medicine for war while tom-toms rustled and torches veered. A chief had been murdered; now the tribe, protected by strong medicine against bad luck, would move through the jungle to kill his killers. They would move safely...
...amber eyes, inscrutable, majestic, heiress of a clan which had its roots in the shade of a southern plantation and its later branches in opulent California; her father, the great Kajetan, fiery master of the piano, a sort of Pietro Mascagni of fiction, with huge handfuls of blue-black hair and the hot blood of Italy's vine-clad valleys. Elizabeth Sinclair died soon after Adrienne was born; Kajetan, like a wanton Ulysses, had left for other shores. In Laguna Vista, California, a delicious world began to unfold itself to Adrienne . . . bronzed turkeys leapt at pungent, low-hanging figs...
SWEEPINGS-Lester Cohen-Bom & Liveright ($2.50). A new dynasty has been founded in U. S. fiction. Its name is Pardway. The roots strike back to Peter Aram Pardway's smithy in postRevolution New England. The great branches flourish in Chicago where Peter's grandsons, dry Daniel and black Thane, have amassed fortunes by the opening of the pres-ent century. Today the Pardways are decayed and blown to the earth's ends; in their author's figure, the pillars of their temple have crumbled, the roof crashed. Their tragedy is that Daniel, who alone had increase...
...composed of beings that are not very human. Daniel and Thane Pardway may have been human beings (their author says he drew them from originals) but in this book they are seen as animated cash-registers-Daniel in his big bargain-sale Loop department store; Thane as the bellicose Black Bear of the wheat pit-to the virtual exclusion of the minor traits and actions by which an individual emerges from a type. The degeneracy of Daniel Pardway's issue-Gene into "a lout among gentleman, a gentleman among louts;" Bert into a floorwalker and window-dresser; Phoebe into...