Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discussing the President and the cowboy costume worn by President Coolidge in the Black Hills, Mr. Manly wrote: "And the moving picture audiences [watching news reels]roar with laughter as this bewildered little man teeters down the steps in his vaudeville chaps and timidly grasps the reins of the gift horse he fears to mount. So the Roman populace roared as Nero, seeking their fickle favor, twanged his lyre and in his effeminate voice sang the poor ballads which he had himself composed...
...Stephenson's) tenure of office as Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan which then (1924) constituted the "invisible government" of Indiana. Last week Mr. Stephenson took the Indianapolis Times into his confidence and sent to the Times many of the documents contained in the "little black box" where he had foresightedly deposited written evidence of his transactions. The most startling of these documents was a check (which the Times reproduced across four columns of its front page) signed by Mr. Stephenson, made out to and endorsed by Governor Jackson, for the amount of $2,500. It was accompanied...
...guards of the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin resisted the entrance of a mob led by the Countess Markievicz. She opened her purse, drew out a pistol, shot the guard dead, and continued to lead a faction of the great Republican demonstration staged in Dublin throughout the notorious "Black Easter Week...
There is also an Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, for Negroes. Improved Elkdom was embroiled last week in legal proceedings over where it would hold its 28th annual Grand Lodge sessions next year, white Elks in Manhattan having prevailed upon black Elks to forgo meeting there as planned...
...song & dance to follow closely after the ebullient crooning and outflung gesturing of primitive Africans, it is logical that the Negro revue should crop up more frequently, with growing success. In Manhattan, the nation's theatrical headquarters, only two new shows opened last week. Both were "black-&-tan" affairs. The better, Africana, has to its credit swift changes, amazing doggers, several funny skits and Ethel Waters. Her 70-odd inches are topped by a small closely cropped head. She uses a typical husky, soft voice to unusual advantage, employs mannerisms frankly and disarmingly Negroid, understands the art of "living...