Word: cadaveric
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The history* of a superior colored feller with a heap of style The Story. One brilliant noon a comely Negress made her way to the waterside at Barbadoes, leading by the hand her nine-year-old boy. At the quay she entered a small boat to carry her out to...
"England was worried about the attitude of China, which seemed to favor Germany. One day there came to my desk a mass of material taken from German prisoners and dead soldiers. In it were two pictures, one showing a train taking dead horses to the rear so that fat and...
"Knowing how the Chinese revere their dead, I had the caption telling of the 'cadaver' being sent back to the fat factory transposed to the picture showing the German corpses, and had this photograph sent to a Chinese newspaper in Shanghai. . . . Six weeks later 'the horrible boiling down of German...
A wild story rose, like a drowned cadaver, to the air. . . . How this man Parton had tried to kill Eliphalet ... how Eliphalet had marooned him on an island, sailed away in a ship whose cargo was a load of black, bewildered, suffering flesh from Africa . . . how hate had kept alive...
It has long been observed that Americans approach objects in art galleries much as a mortician approaches a cadaver. They take their hats off. They elevate their noses. They tiptoe. While this procedure is undoubtedly appropriate when the exhibit is very bad, John Sloan, at the Independents' exhibition in...