Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cincinnati, the paradise of booze, bootleggers and the home of Remus, will black both their eyes by voting against Willis. But "we love Willis because of the enemies he has made...
...frequency and magnitude of modern wars." Thus postulated, at Manhattan ast week, Herr Doktor Will Hohner, on of him who founded the famed M. Hohner Harmonica Co. in 1856. Herr Doktor Hohner, who had just landed from he liner Berlin, continued: "Our factories at Trossingen in the Black Forest still employ twice as many workers as before he World War. . . . The Boer War was chief cause operating to produce the introduction of the harmonica into South Africa. . . . Japan might still be without he pleasures to be derived from the harmonica had it not been introduced there with a view...
...portraits of the ladies who belonged to that dissolute court managed by Louis XIV of France, there often appears the dark and ambiguous figure of a black dwarf. In an article published by the Messenger, famed Negro periodical, one J. A. Rogers offers a by no means unlikely explanation of the pictorial presence of these creatures...
...Rogers says that the Queen of France gave birth to a female pickaninny and that courtiers agreed that the grimaces of her dwarf must have frightened her into what would otherwise have been a most dubious production. The black girl was baptized Louise Marie, and sent to a convent where she stayed until her death. French records of the period speak of a "black...
...Rogers' conclusion: "The Black Nun* might have been a mystery in those days but in this hardboiled age we are inclined to be a bit more sceptical...