Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most inexcusable, unreasonable, contemptible, diabolical, damnable and pusillanimous falsehood ever conceived in the twisted, corrupted, diseased, poisoned, fiendish mind of a black-hearted villain and assassin" was last week isolated and thus described by Mississippi's Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo in a formal address to the State Legislature. Governor Bilbo had been charged with attempting to peddle a Mississippi bond issue to a Nashville, Tenn. bond house, at a loss to his State of $85,000 and contrary to law. In a 5,000-word message he denied the charge. The same message asked each legislator to donate...
Colors. Stylists noted dark brown and wine red predominated, relieved by orange, royal blue, chartreuse, honey-beige, carnelian. Black and white is "in," as always...
Successful in Afghanistan, the Mohammedan mullahs (priests) of Near Asia have spread their reactionary revoltings to neighboring Persia. Black-fezzed and bearded, they last week shouted in Persian market places that Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi is trying to Europeanize Persia, debauch her youth, rob her people. Always ready for a fight, nomadic Arabs in South Persia rose in revolt, tried to draw into the fray the dreaded Bakhtiari, fiercest of Persian tribes...
George Mosher, 14, "kala-azar victim" (TIME, July 1), died last week. Ten blood transfusions, the interest of the Rockefeller Institute and the New York Health Department, the hard work of his hospital doctors, all were useless. Autopsists sought for the rare Asian microbe of kala-azar (tropical black fever) supposed to have killed him. But no organism was found. The verdict: he died of an unusual anemia, called idiopathic aplastic (self-forming, non-tissue-building...
...Black's Grandstand. To watch the 1,200-mi. air race around England for the King's Cup last week, air-touring Publisher Van Lear Black of Baltimore chartered a huge Imperial Airways plane as his "flying grandstand." Winner of the race was R. L. Atcherley, flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, with a Gloster-Grebe military fighter. A competitor was Lady Mary Bailey, trans-African adventuress (TIME, March 26, 1928, April...