Word: burnting
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...foreign playwriting, the first selection went completely native. It is set at Charleston's docks, written in Negro patois, deals with purely Negro problems (as opposed to most plays and books about Negroes, which struggle with race prejudice and intermarriage), is played almost wholly by a company colored without burnt cork...
...meantime, there is nought but a sordid hole in the sidewalk with a row of vesper lanterns being burnt as an offering to the soul of the departed and, as Bob remarked, looking at the upturned cage with its iron spikes, "to save the boys pants from being torn on Saturday nights...
...scourged to the north by fire from the camps. Natalia smothers her child to preserve its innocence. April, informed with her dead brother's spirit, smuggles out a pistol to kill her father but quails at sight of him, shoots herself instead. He roams back into the burnt hills, fasting, escaped from human automatisms, inexhaustible, thirsting to create...
Like all poets, he finds language inadequate; is forced back upon "match-ends of burnt experience human enough to be understood." But from his match-ends he extracts white heat, terrific convulsions, monstrous images, without more linguistic violence than a harsh ellipsis and radical translations of character. He pictures...
...Author became famous when he published in Scribner's (monthly) his War impressions illustrated with burnt-match strokes. While these were selling widely in book form as Fix Bayonets, he was gathering fresh material at his post of duty with the U. S. Marines in Nicaragua...