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Word: blackness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BRING THAT UP? (Moran & Mack)?Black-faced stuff for the vaudeville stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMING,GOING | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Richard Corbett," said the presiding judge, grave in his white lace collar and black hat, "did your mother ask you to kill her? . . . It was you who coolly and deliberately took her life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Euthanasia | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill happened to attend. So enthusiastic was O'Neill that he went backstage and begged Robeson to act in Emperor Jones. His law course finished, Robeson consented, and made a name as a big actor in Emperor Jones, All God's Chillun, Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Robeson's Return | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Even in Ernst Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf, presented last year at the Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Jan. 28) and before that in many a European capital, there was much discussion because Hero Jonny is supposed to be a black-face comedian. The Metropolitan authorities worried about letting Basso Michael Bohnen wear full, realistic black-face makeup, thought perhaps his neck should show white to reassure prejudiced observers. At the dress rehearsal the neck was white. It looked so absurd that at the performance it was blackened like the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Robeson's Return | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Havana, a baby born to blonde Senora Caridad Perez developed black eyes, dark skin, kinky hair. A baby born to brunette Bernardina Vega became blonde, blue-eyed. Senor Perez sued for divorce. Police investigated, found that the babies, born in the same hospital, had been bathed together, mixed. Senor Perez canceled his suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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