Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charter subscriber to TIME, may I suggest, as others have done, that you eliminate the RED from its covers? Plain black and white with a little etching on borders would give the magazine a better and a more dignified appearance...
Since Mlle. Banky now resides in Hollywood, the suit for libel was brought by her father, who almost escaped notice last week when Defendant Sari Fedak swept into court, clad in a black gown tight as snakeskin, looking perhaps half her 43 years...
...Ferenc Molnar, after he had accused her of intimacy with 42 gentlemen, and she had replied in kind with a list of 142 ladies. The sensation, at the time, was international, if not cosmic. Yet the Court asked last week: "Have you a hus-band?" Sari Fedak (shrugging a black, snaky shoulder): "Thank God, no!" The Court: "Have you any physical defects?" Sari Fedak (relaxing in her chair, replying in a sultry tone): "Certainly not-unless in my brain." Ah, reflected the auditors, more than one brain had been turned by Sari Fedak. Does not Count Emerich Dagenfeldt...
...SOUTH AFRICANS?Sarah Gertrude Millin?Boni & Liveright ($3.50). South Africa and its little muttering wars, the noise of the mines under the hot sun, the songs that the Dutch vintners sing and the old curses that black men shout in the alleys of Johannes-burg?for most people these are far away. They are heard only as a confused murmur, a distant and broken music...
...many places, so that the audience almost prefers the mumblers. But all is forgiven once Ogden Goelet begins his tap dances, in the manner of Jack Donahue, and the audience can take a good deal of punishment so long as Sally Sherburne and Barry Gingham consent to do the Black Bottom...