Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Watson. In Indiana, Candidate Watson & friends found a kettle as black as their pot. They found, or said they found, Will H. Hays & friends behind the Hoover candidacy there. No denial coming direct from Candidate Hoover, the Watson-Hoover battle in Indiana temporarily assumed the aspect of local gang...
...meantime, the King dies. In order that the story be up-to-date, the children find the Queen in mourning among the lilies of the Black Sea, which is not black, but blue. Here the American child takes leave of the Queen. The child awakens and recognizes its grandmother, to whom it tells its impressions of Rumania...
Sandino Described. "His regular, curved eyebrows are arched high above liquid black eyes without visible pupils. His eyes are of remarkable mobility and refraction to light-quick, intense eyes. ... He is short, not more than five feet five. When I saw him he was dressed in a uniform of dark brown with almost black puttees, immaculately polished; a silk red-and-black handkerchief knotted about his throat; and a broad-brimmed Texas Stetson hat, pulled low over his forehead and pinched shovel-shaped. Occasionally, as we conversed, he shoved his sombrero to the back of his head and hitched...
PORGY-All the grim and gaudy details of black tragedy, superbly directed, brilliantly played by a colored cast (TIME...
Adam and Eve, the black and elaborate magic of James Branch Cabell's Something About Eve, should please readers of Shaw's Back to Methuselah. The volume is not without a certain philosophic realism. Anthropomorphic deities grow ponderously chatty over the direction of human destinies. Nonetheless Author Sheehan, after working for years, has produced a novel which treats of gods and men with such tenuous charm that one is almost sure the writer must have drowsed in Paradise...