Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negroes were admitted at from $1.10 to $2.65 a seat. The speeches were inspirational. Bishop George Alexander McGuire spoke on The Black Man of Sorrows, exhibited pictures of a mulatto Christ crowned with thorns and of a Black Madonna. "If God is your Father, He must be the same color that...
...second-Assistant President exclaimed: "If I could, by the use of some chemical, change my color to white, I would...
...first to speak was Sir Valentine Chirol, onetime foreign Editor of The London Times and Royal Commissioner on Indian Public Service. His theme was The Reawakening of the Orient. Said he: " Never before has the white man stressed the color bar as he does today ? never before has the Orient denied his claim to racial superiority as it does today. . . . Hostility to all foreigners has never been so deliberately and insolently displayed as it is today...
...mowing-machine maker. The little band reassembled the next year and the next and many more. Their numbers grew. The original program of religious contemplation grew, reached out into other fields of human interest - Music, Education, Art, Politics. Each year the object was to make Chautauqua a richer, more color ful, more "improving" experience. As decades passed, "Chautauqua" became a word of many meanings. It meant, as well as the parent gathering and the name of a lake, town and county in New York, a great many similar gatherings in all parts of the country. It meant a kind...
...Nature. At present, one Mrs. Calcott of London is experimenting with a new method in wax. "She does not try to make her miniature's lifelike and for that reason is more artistic. . . ." She says of her process that she uses pure White beeswax and melts the color into it. To a large extent she makes her portraits by taking casts of a clay or wax model, particularly because it would be so difficult to keep wax clean in London. Each color must be cast separately, the parts afterwards joined up with a hot tool. She has been especially...