Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power plants must include not only hydro-electric but steam-driven generators. "We must mix the white coal [water power] with the black coal [thermic power]," declares Signor Motta, "[to] make up for the deficiency of water power in years of minimum rain fall...
Lord Rothermere, secure in the knowledge that Il Duce is now politically a Black, wrote on, last week, in somewhat mystic vein...
Since January Promoter Rickard has been promoting a boxing tournament for heavyweights called "The Elimination Tournament." From this tournament, before it began, Paolino Uzcudun, Basque, and George Godfrey, black man, were eliminated for business reasons. Jack Sharkey, after fighting to a draw with Heeney, was eliminated by Johnny Risko. Risko has eliminated all his opponents so far but is not now matched to meet anybody. Promoter Humbert Fugazy, rival of Rickard, is trying to match Tunney with George Godfrey...
...Powys, novel-writer, a graduate of Cambridge. In 1909, afflicted with tuberculosis, he went to a Swiss sanatorium, an experience about which he later wrote a book. In 1914, still diseased, he went to South Africa for five years: this visit supplied the material for Ebony & Ivory, Black Laughter. In 1920, he came to the U. S. without fame, wealth or a wife; in 1925, he left the U. S. with all three and lived in England for two years, writing about Henry Hudson. Now he is back in the U. S., doing book reviews and other things...
...never stays in one place mo' 'n fo' weeks," boasts Black Ulysses. "Leastwise, never mo' 'n five. . . . Sometimes I knows where I wants to go, an' sometimes I jes' git on to go anywhere, jes' anywhere at all, jes' anywhere but where I is." Little matter where, for this colored travelin' man is of versatile profession. Not yet 35, he has covered 40 states, as cotton picker in Alabama, meat packer in Chicago, harvest hand out West, sailor to Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta...