Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...designed to give U. S. industries immunity under the anti-trust laws in collective buying of crude rubber, potash, sisal "or other raw materials or products of nature." The opposition which sprang up declared that such a measure would injure the U. S. consumer. New York's vociferous Black sought to belittle Candidate Hoover, to whose warnings against the British rubber monopoly, the measure was traceable. Up stood Connecticut's tall Tilson, the Republican leader. He called attention to Premier Baldwin's announcement, the day before in Parliament, that the British rubber monopoly would be terminated...
Last week the smug beef-consumers decided that they now know what Sylvia Pankhurst is. They made up their minds quickly when she displayed to reporters, last week, a chubby, black-eyed man child, and announced that he is her natural son, aged four months...
...same old sorrows and self pity are fast taking new expression in "sweet Blues comin' from a black man's soul-achin' hearted Blues, all alone Blues, baby-won't-you-please-come-home Blues, chain-gang Blues, mo' Blues than angels in Heaven can sing...
...sociology, the author recognizes one of America's "problems" in the itinerant Negro "with the don't keer spirit, go day, come day, God send Sunday." But he sees the sociological evil in a setting of romance, and suggests graphically, if a bit lengthily, that his black hero's vaguely discontented lack of ambition is somewhat atoned by the charm of his sudden optimism...
After a thoroughly thrilling set-to with the Knights Templars, who are painted as Black-Mass men and whose assassins invariably go disguised as leprous beggars, O'Neill and Kothra hump themselves furiously on dromedary-back to the marge of the Lake of Galilee. The bloodhounds are coming! Quick, quick! Will he embrace Islam to save them both? Yes, yes! So, discreetly, they strip off their clothes and swim together out of the last chapter, presumably to board a Bedouin fishing smack, get back to Damascus and live in flower-fragrant happiness ever after...