Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colorful of all days." It was Mr. Booze's birthday. Sprinter Owens gave Mississippi's champion high-school sprinter, Berkeil Naylor of Cleveland, Miss, (white), a five-yard handicap, beat him easily. Mr. Booze's No. 2 attraction was an Aviator, Colonel John C. Robinson, "the Brown Condor of Ethiopia,"* who landed at the Mound Bayou Airport with Mrs. Annie M. Turnbo Malone, president of Chicago's Negro Poro College...
...charges were preferred and he was released without court hearing. His last job as a seaman was in the Coast & Geodetic Survey as a quartermaster on the U. S. S. Lydonia. It was while serving on the Lydonia that he met his future wife, who was born Agnes Brown in the Black. Craig Hills of Scotland, and brought to the U. S. by her parents at age 12. Shortly after he met her, Harry Bridges gave up the sea, settling down in San Francisco as a longshoreman...
...points with jerks of his knotted longshoreman's arms. He used to have a pronounced Australian accent (an exaggerated Cockney) but has now lost most of it, speaking in a soft, low, emphatic voice. On the platform he is restrained, though he sometimes stops, tosses back his brown hair, pushing his beak forward as if into the wind at sea on lookout. He demonstrated his spellbinding platform power at a Madison Square Garden rally last year when, near the end of a long program, he held a tired crowd of 15,000 for a full hour extemporaneously. His suspicious...
...Chinese to Americans. To Madame Ichikawa, who claims the Japanese character "is like a peppercorn, small but hot," the English were the least compatible people she found. Students looked "just like asparagus cultivated under glass," so soft and pink that she thought they might be almost edible. Flat-heeled, brown-clad English women all looked like schoolteachers. Under the withering catechism of Author Walter De La Mare, Madame Ichikawa admitted that the only things good about England were "the policeman, cart-horses and Simpson's beef-steak." * The worst example of English bad taste she found in her hotel...
...Great Britain, the latest of which was last week played in England (see p. 40). Bobby Jones is an honorary PGA vice-president and most of the ranking U. S. professionals belong. President George Richard Jacobus is typical. A pleasant-faced man of 38 with stocky build, brown hair and a crooked nose, he has taught golf for 19 years, most of them at the Ridgewood (N. J.) Country Club. He never won a major title but currently shoots in the low 70s, claims to be the only man ever to shoot eight consecutive birdies...