Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warmly atmospheric patios, fakirs and camels. On hot days, Equatorial and Occidental African craftsmen were stinking convincingly last week as they fashioned their wares amid incipient squalor which seemed to make them more at home at the Exposition each day. Biggest was the civilized white crowd around a coal-black East African Negro cloth weaver who chants a weird native jazz in time with the squeaking of his loom pedals, the clanking of his bone shuttle...
...little lambs who have lost our way. Baa, Baa, Baa. We're little black sheep who have gone astray...
...infallible is Sam Liebowitz's smartness. Trying a case before mixed Italians and Irish he was trying to show up a policeman. "What's that bulge in your hip pocket, a black-jack?" "No, it's a handkerchief and a medal," said the policeman, pulling out the handkerchief. "Oh, so you're a hero, eh?" snapped Liebowitz. "No," said the cop, pulling out a religious medal, "a Roman Catholic...
...Schwarzschild: "Black Shield," Rothschild: 'Red Shield...
...about. It came to him that his experience in Vera Cruz was specially planned by God as part of his training. In lonely sea-watches he figured it out. God had given him his common sense and uncommon luck to enable him some day to sail out across the Black Ocean where no living man has been and bring back the truth. When he got stuck in the fo'c's'le hatch of a foundering old tub Harry knew his drowning was not in the cards. Sure enough, the boilers burst and blew him back...