Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mystery stories because they are hard to see in the dark and because white folk, not knowing much about them, believe them primitively prone to violence. Author Fisher writes much better than most white fictioneers. One of the things that makes his book unusual is highly appropriate local color about Harlem. Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins are as funny as Amos & Andy. Says Bubber: ''You won't find nobody black as me that's less suprastitious." Says Jinx: "Just say you won't find anyone as black as you and stop. . . ." The Conjure-Man Dies is also probably the first...
...Crisis magazine, edited primarily for the colored races, has established a department called ''Along the Color Line," which is so faithful a copy, both in style and makeup, of the curtness, clearness, conciseness which is the essence of TIME, that one wonders whether or no it (The Crisis) is another publication which TIME has taken under its wing...
...connection whatever with TIME has the 15? monthly Crisis, "A record of the Darker Races," published in Manhattan by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, edited by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. In organization, format, style and objective attitude its "Along the Color Line" news department is the ablest imitation of TIME that TIME has seen. Specimen news items in the July issue...
...kill a man in less than five minutes. (Dr. Ditmars once saw a companion so killed.) The bush master is a cousin of the cobra, carries a spine on the end of his tail. Usually reddish brown, he may be pinkish with black splotches. "Some of them are the color of canned salmon," said Dr. Ditmars. "A very handsome, calm and insolent snake." Rare, bush masters live only in the tropics. Within the last year Dr. Ditmars got word that seven had been killed near Panama's Chagres River. He has hired a convict to take...
...those odd days queernesses grew naturally on people, like bumps on logs. Nobody thought it wonderful that Mr. Eardley, the dairyman around the corner, was like the rest of his family, the color of milk, or that the local barber should bear the name Cutbeard. Small Compton Mackenzie thought it only natural that Dr. Arden, who lived at No. 1, should, with his lanky frame and short frock coat, incarnate the figure 1. Mr. Lockett, living at No. 3, had carroty curls that puffed out beneath his curly-brimmed silk hat "in a very three-like way." And who should...