Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution. ... A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his name in a party primary as any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself and by nobody else...
...friend. Out of 17 thunderbolts which he dug up at her bidding from the soft earth under her cabbages, she fashioned him a sword and enchanted it with runes and bade him be off. So Alvaric set his face toward the Elfin Mountains, whose changeless peaks were the color of forget-me-nots, and in due time passed the frontier of twilight that bordered the fields men knew and was the rampart of Elfland...
Time was not in Elfland, nor dawn nor sunset nor any change at all. The deep 'blue of summer gloaming, the pale blue of Venus flooding the evening, the night-blue deeps of twilit lakes-these were hints of Elfland's color, as the rarest of earthly smells and shapes and sounds were hints of Elfland's other beauties...
...that ambles along carelessly, with toes kicked up in process of walking-movements that range from slowness of contemplation to mercurial quickness of sudden resolution-on broad shoulders, a round head, marked by an oppressively full brow which overarches the face like a crag-eyes, of gooseberry size and color, which roam restlessly or assume a fixed expression as if looking into the secrets of Fate. His complexion is sallow and leatherlike, and his face is shot through with lines, lines which he will never permit a photographer to erase because, as he says, 'it cost me too much...
...John W. Gregory, President of the Geographical Section of the Association, spoke on the "Color" problem of the earth, in which the white race, com posed of some 520,000,000 out of a total population of about 1,700,000,000, controls eight-ninths of the habitable earth. He suggested that there were four possible solutions of the color problem: 1) amalgamation by miscegenation; 2) coresidence without fu sion; 3) 'disfranchisement of the col ored population; 4) segregation into separate communities. He inclined to the belief that the last will be the solution, and foresaw that...