Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moonfaced, middle-aged and wearing a shabby black jacket, a north of England "poor man's'' clergyman appeared at the gates of the Château de Cande last week and recited a little piece...
...exaggerated and impossible," offered successively a $1.20 and then a $1.33 minimum wage, a 40-hour week split into five days instead of the five seven-hour days and one five-hour day the union demanded. These proposals were turned down as promptly as everyone expected, and red-&-black strike flags continued to fly peaceably over orderly picket lines. Since in Mexico any form of strikebreaking is heinously unconstitutional, no worker was afraid of being displaced...
Back soon after the play to sit in my window and look down on the river bank, with the open cars whizzing down the drive, the reflections of the street lamps peering out of the black water, and the hatless girls ambling along stalking their nocturnal prey...
...only the great are painted by Britain's adept portraitists. Genteel humor has never been despised by the Royal Academy. Year ago Caricaturist George Belcher, who stalks about Chelsea in a large black hat and satin stock and who prefers char ladies and costermongers for models, made headlines at the Academy with a portrait of a fat man playing a cornet. Quick to repeat a good thing, he sent two similar portraits to this year's Burlington House. Best was Brother Fetch, a London commissionaire in full regalia of the Order of Buffaloes, elegantly curling his buffalo horn...
...selection committee, a famed painter of circus scenes. Dominating most of one wall in a main gallery was her massive canvas called London Palladium showing an unprepossessing young woman in evening dress watching the Crazy Gang, well known London vaudeville team, from a stage box. Manager Gerald Black of the Palladium snapped it up for $6,000 to embellish his lobby...