Word: bloodedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a mewling white tenor has strutted the proscenium at Manhattan's Metropolitan while more gifted Negro singers, by long-standing custom, were excluded. But in the field of concert singing Negroes like Roland Hayes and Paul Robeson have held their own with the best. Today's most...
Edmund Gilligan's Boundary Against Night (1938) was an ambitious, untidy, talented novel about the Boston Police Strike, included two Bannon brothers among its characters. White Sails Crowding is told by an earlier Bannon. No less high-blooded but tidier, it is a deliberately old-fashioned story of romantic...
Correspondent Edward Angly of the blue-blooded New York Herald Tribune reported the happiest experience. Everyone knew that Edward Windsor, once King but now only a Duke turned major general, was somewhere in France. Not everyone knew that his younger brother, Prince Henry, 39, Duke of Gloucester, is chief liaison...
Not all these horseless hunters are young, red-blooded suburbanites who find the sport inexpensive outdoor exercise for fall and winter Sundays. Some are middle-aged beaglers-notably the Buckrams' walrusy Hoffman Nickerson (Harvard '11) and his British bride of a year, whose enthusiasm for beagling dates back...
Hot blooded Brill, infuriated at the slur on his name and "family seat at the Point", often was sent into an uncontrollable rage. It was well known that he had vowed to get retribution the next time the "slanderer," as he put it, was in the vicinity. When interviewed recently...