Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole play is centered with more than usual intensity, is built around the life of a mulatto--a champion of the negro cause who is doomed to increasing disappointment and failure because his aspirations and his pride are out of all proportion to his abilities and his environment. The blood of the old colonnel, his natural father, makes him unwilling to submit to the indignities attendant on the negro's position in society, and his desire for enlightenment leads him to neglect a means of livelihood with the consequence that his family endures poverty and suffering and he earns...
...play ran very smoothly up to the part where the villain fired at the hero. This being the hero's cue he said as instructed. "My goodness. I'm shot!" But the feeling a warm trickle down his side, and mistaking it for a trickle of blood, cried, "--* --,* I AM shot! ! ! !" When a man is in danger or facing terrible torture, e. g. reading a Fashion Sheet Page, it is natural that he call upon the Deity. If you publish this letter it would be natural for me to exclaim, "God save me from the Rapps...
...Yusef, Sultan of the Shereefian Empire (Morocco), 36th lineal descendant of Ali, cousin and brother-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed. The Sultan died in the 48th year of his life and the 16th of his reign from a violent attack of uremia (his kidneys could not strain off blood poisons), his demise taking place in the Imperial Palace at Fez, one of the four Imperial Capitals...
This was long after he had written the Origin of Species. Darwin was born in 1809. He went to Shrewsbury School, then Edinburgh, then Cambridge. He was regarded during this period as an ineffectual student, a boy of vague intents, a sporting blood. He first planned on medicine for a career, then thought of entering the ministry. But something happened that changed his life and the history of the world. A Captain (later Admiral) Fitz-Roy was leaving England to tour the world in a boat called The Beagle. Darwin wanted to go. His father forbade the trip provisionally...
...refutation of the idea that college bred people are the only ones who build blood of leadership caliber the figures are reassuring. There was great wailing in the halls of sociology not long ago when it was discovered that Harvard and Yale and Radcliffe and Wellesley were only doing their duty by posterity to the tune of a fractional offspring. The as gumption was made that the best blood of the country, meaning the figures who would be the leaders of a generation hence, would come almost exclusively from college ranks...