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...Booker T. Washington stands at Tuskegee. Minstrels sing spirituals. The pageant becomes modern Harlem medley. Irene Castle McLaughlin explains her old-time dances, the "Bunny Hug," the "Hesitation," the ''Maxine." A chorus dances them. Orchestra Leader Noble Sissle recalls the War with his ''On Patrol in No Man's Land." Bill Robinson does a tap dance, brings down the house, encores again and again. W. C. Handy leads his "St. Louis Blues." All 5,000 voices break into a tremendous chant...
...GEORGE F. BOOKER...
...Negro children may be smar," said the late famed Negro Booker T. Washington, "but the white people of the South compliment them too much when they think they can learn in four months as much as white children can in nine...
...famed waxworks at Coney Island (N. Y.), funpark, figures of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, James John Walker, Leon Trotsky, John Joseph Pershing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus, Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists...
...believe-things-not-so. He said he was boxing champion at Harvard because he had wished so intensely for that honor. He dodged taxes between New York and Oyster Bay because he was always more or less strapped for money. He tried to bluster out the protests against the Booker T. Washington White House dinner by saying that the Negro leader chanced to be around at lunch time whereas in fact the President had formally invited him for the evening meal. His declaration that all he knew about the Panama revolt was what he read in the papers came close...