Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...namely Eugene Onegin, presented as handsomely as under the Romanovs. The theme of this opera is a poem of at times ridiculous and always entirely bourgeois flirtation and frustration-unless one is a Russian, for all Russians, whether Communists or not, love the poet author of Eugene Onegin, faintly black-blooded Pushkin, "The Russian Shakespeare...
...spirit as typical of the early Examiner in the days when young Publisher Hearst would hire a special train to get his news crew to the scene of a fire; when publisher & reporters had fabulous fun at Hearst's house in Sausalito; when famed "Annie Laurie" (Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils), first of the expert Hearst tearjerkers, wrote her classic sob stories about "Little Jim," the crippled child of a drunken prostitute, which drew $20,000 from the pockets of sympathetic Examiner readers; and when incorrigible Reporter Eddie Morphy made San Franciscans weep just as loudly over a destitute orphaned...
...lungs are two irregular conical shaped organs occupying the chest. At birth and for three weeks thereafter they are white. Gradually they darken to yellowish grey or reddish grey in the adult. People who live in smoky cities like St. Louis (TIME, Feb. 22) have their lungs marbled with black and blue lines from particles of soot. Coal miners' lungs are black, copper miners' are blue...
Sole redeeming feature at the University this week is a cleverly worked out mystery yarn, "The Case of the Black Cat", with Ricardo Cortez and Marsha Hunt in the leading roles. The death of an infirm old recluse in a fire, and its connection with the subsequent death by violence of a woman in an apartment house form the basis of the plot...
Ricardo Cortez, in the role of defense attorney for the (innocent) young man accused of the crime, gives a skillful enough performance with adequate assistance from the supporting cast. A black cat, name unknown, also figures in the events...