Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Counsel: "Everything went black and he did not know what he was doing...
...motto of the Mosconi is Ever Prospering by God's Grace, and their ancient coat of arms displays two black two-headed eagles and two gold one-headed lions rampant, while from each of the six mouths of these four angry creatures darts a crimson tongue, barbed...
...MacKaye -Longmans Green ($2.00). In prose, this folktale might well have been a catalog of horrors, but Southern mountaineers' dialect done into cadenced free verse makes of it a fascinating fable, moral and all. With three wedding presents-a silver ring, a goose feather pillow, and a little black slave for luckpenny-MacKnight rides over the hills from Ca'liny to claim proud Margery, his bride. This copper-haired beauty has eight brothers who kill the little black slave for her dance orgies with the Gobbler. Luckpenny dead, MacKnight and his delectable bride are pursued by an eery...
...whites. Now no white owned land, and all the havocked property passed to ex-slaves. Making himself emperor in the grand manner, Jean Jacques Dessalines governed these ignorants by the universally understood authority of force, but he was murdered for brutal abuse of power. Among his simultaneous successors was black King Christophe, most picturesque of Haitians...
...civilized exuberance by an event which was like a threatening whisper in the dark. A man had jumped off the steamship Rochambeau, at night, into the Atlantic Ocean. The steamship had turned around in her course and sent a lifeboat to find him in the black wilderness of waves. When found, the man, nervous, apologetic, was carried to the deck and helped through a crowd of frightened passengers to his stateroom. His name is Morton McMichael Hoyt; his wife is Jeanne Bankhead, sister to Tallulah; his brother, Henry M. Hoyt Jr., had committed suicide eight years ago; his sisters...