Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, famed "Black Eagle of Harlem," who drilled Ethiopian youngsters with wooden guns during the Italo-Ethiopian War, arrived in Paris to make a "comprehensive study of the international situation" as a war reporter for the Harlem newssheet, the Amsterdam News. "I am," said he, "ready to offer my services to France...
...Having Any Fun?, energetically shouted by 52nd Street's Scotcha Ella Logan; one big, loud ensemble, hymning Tin Pan Alley; Tapper Ann Miller, who has some things Tapper Eleanor Powell has not; and a shimmy-shake called the Mexiconga, which will not be a successor to Producer White's Black Bottom. Sorriest Scandal: John L. Lewis picketing a bedded couple who refuse to join a union...
...Jones reported that Class I railroads had operated in the black during July for the first time this year (deficit for the first six months...
...needed no such calls to prayer. From the crowded churches of a whole continent rose a spontaneous litany. Some religious footnotes to the week's headlined woe: >Closed to the public were Westminster Abbey's Royal Chapels, their tombs sandbagged, many of their effigies removed. On the black marble slab of Great Britain's Unknown Warrior in the Abbey's nave, a wreath of brown orchids inscribed "The Italian Embassy" lay beside a wreath from President Albert Lebrun of France. >Great Britain's Cardinal Kinsley told nuns they might wear headdresses that fitted over...
...years later when he was ordered back to New York. He worked for a while for King Features Syndicate, but he and Louella Parsons disagreed on whether Garbo would marry Stokowski (Skolsky was right) and that got him in bad with Hearst. Since the fall of 1938 "the little black mouse" has been a familiar sight in Hollywood studios and night clubs, but nobody has given him a contract...