Word: blackness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seen many such ceremonies. The Coolidge Cabinet, led by Frank Billings Kellogg (who will continue as Secretary of State until the arrival of Henry Lewis Stimson) took reserved seats well forward. The Chief moved up to the rose-decked reading stand among the microphones. Chief Justice Taft, in black robes and skullcap, moved to his side. Supreme Court Clerk Elmer Cropley handed the Chief Justice a small, new Bible, ribboned to Matthew 5 (The Sermon on the Mount). It was really raining...
...Coolidge took a diamond and platinum brooch 1½ in. by 3½ in. on a 22-in. diamond and platinum chain, the whole containing nearly 400 diamonds (largest stone, five carats) made by Black, Starr & Frost; also a pink leather book containing the names of the lady admirers who presented the brooch (duplicate filed in the secret archives of the State Department) ; a large silver bowl and candlesticks presented by Lady Howard on behalf of the Diplomatic Corps, as wedding gifts for John Coolidge and Florence Trumbull; a check for $100,000 contributed to the endowment of Clarke School...
...British Empire is the greatest force for good the world has ever seen and possibly ever will see!" exclaimed General Smuts to correspondents, "The greatest problem before South Africa is the living together in peace and cooperation of a white and a black population. . . . If we fail in its solution, our white population is doomed in Africa, and this continent will continue on its road of immemorial barbarism...
Annoyed by noises interfering with a sound-production, one William Seiter, directing Corinne Griffith, tore off his derby hat, spat and stamped on it. He received next day from Miss Griffith a new derby, black, shiny, made...
...temperature of the ground enclosing somebody named Massa, is repetitious. All is redeemed, however, by the humor of a gaunt, pop-eyed blackamoor named Stepin Fetchit, cast as "Gummy," laziest of blackamoor husbands. The unpretentious story, genuinely moving at its best, at its worst a kind of Bostonian black-bottom, deals with an old Negro's denial and final acceptance of modern medical methods. Best shots-Gummy, whose feet hurt...