Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prices of Farm Products," Professor Black, Sever...
...engaging in an extensive program of debates with Eastern institutions. All of its members are experienced debaters, and one of them, Rolf Lium, gained nation-wide prominence last summer when he acted as preacher for the Congregational church attended by President and Mrs. Coolidge during their sojourn in the Black Hills of South Dakota...
...atmospheric illuminations of East African voodooism were more original and hence more noticed. Painter Motley has seen the crowd of anxious dark faces at a fortune teller's door, waiting to be told what numbers to bet on in a gambling game. He paints the same crowd, their black skins grey in the light of a jungle moon, capering through the mad tendrils of a mango grove...
Died. Ethelbert Talbot, 79, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Bethlehem, Pa., and onetime presiding bishop of his church; in his daughter's home at Tuckahoe, N. Y.; after 36 hours' unconsciousness. His street dress was that of the Church of England Bishop-knee breeches, gaiters and a black silk apron...
...inch advertisement and a brief publicity notice appeared in New York City newspapers one day last week announcing the return of a famed young woman. A year ago the shrug of her well-rounded shoulders was worth a big black headline. But that was history by which many a newspaper profited and was shamed. Last week's item was that Mrs. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning went on the stage of the vast Keith-Albee Hippodrome in uptown Manhattan. Adequately clothed, she sang briefly and badly in a vaudeville act, introduced by a sleek whippersnapper. To a few newsgatherers...