Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...danced with small facility. But when he grew dramatic in a tragic number reminiscent of his famous "Poor Little Rich Girl" he stirred his audience to transports similar to those he used to arouse in "The Vortex." Entitled "Dance, Little Lady," it was quite a grisly warning to the black-bottomers...
...football player who has scored the most points this season is Kenneth Strong of New York University. The members of the Princeton team eat meals prepared by a small man, black as a raven, whose name is Swan. In the field house at Penn there is a notice on the bulletin board prescribing what Penn players must do each hour they are traveling to games...
Died. George Nixon Black, 86, Boston capitalist & philanthropist, onetime largest individual taxpayer in the city; in Boston. Servants Gombi & Robrisch were willed...
...Nephew of famed "Baseball Tsar" Landis, senior at Columbia. He entered the University when he was 15, wore short pants and black ribbed stockings through his Freshman year. His ambition to be a coxswain was frustrated by his mother who would not permit a nonswimming son on the Harlem River. His hair is usually tousled, his eyes sleepy, and great is his aptitude for poker. Last summer he won a Ford in a poker game. The Ford, however, would not run. His interest in baseball is only casual...
...Tarn," another psychological study, but in darker vein. Two men, one successful, the other not, one patronizing, the other resentful, walk in the gathering shadows by a mysterious lake. Suddenly the resentment of years surges up in the one; he strangles his companion, flicks him into the black water. Dazed, he stumbles home and to sleep, but dies of nightmare...