Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exploitation of the island (rubber, etc.) rather than in the welfare of the islanders. Here Senator Moses of New Hampshire quietly remarked that, if Senator Harrison was so interested in "the little brown man of the Philippines," he might also propose an investigation into the conditions of "the little black man in Mississippi." It was a very palpable hit which Pat Harrison took with his usual good humor, and then proceeded to urge a resolution that Congress send to the Philippines its own investigation committee. The Senator who champions the dignity of Congress will always be heard willingly...
High Grade Whites. Dr. R. Bennett Bean of the University of Virginia, from a profound anatomical study of races, reported that the white races are advancing in superiority over the yellow and black; if not, the yellow and black are receding. He reached this finding after dividing humanity, irrespective of color, into high, medium and low types, then subdividing these grades according to color. Among the low, those with deficient mentality and bodies, stubby fingers, slanting foreheads and other stigmata, there were relatively few whites. Not so the black and yellow...
...BLACK IVORY-Polan Banks- Harper ($2). Once upon a time there was a pirate who marauded the Gulf of Mexico. Black ivory (slaves) was his chief booty. His men were cutthroats to the last gurgle. But his diablerie was so debonair, his ruthlessness so discriminating, that the Latin citizenry of New Orleans around 1800 could not take offense when he came boldly ashore to do business with them and dance with their daughters to the wailing guitar. In 1812 the British tried to buy him up to betray his favorite port. He pondered. He was Jean Lafitte, outlaw. The northern...
There is very little novelty in this business of growing up. Many who used to be interested in Easter eggs are still interested in eggs, and egg-eating contests, and I who reveled in the colors of Easter eggs must regret the black and white slides which Professor Edgell will show in Fogg this morning. The Florentine paintings which will be shown at 11 o'clock this morning deserve a better fate...
...contoritionist's soul as he leaps, jumps, hurls himself before Bebe's car--to die? Of course not. Contoritionists never die when automobiles hit them. They just confort. So she saved the fifty thousand dollars and the Boston lawyer quel homme! So droll, and with what a black...