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...portraits of the ladies who belonged to that dissolute court managed by Louis XIV of France, there often appears the dark and ambiguous figure of a black dwarf. In an article published by the Messenger, famed Negro periodical, one J. A. Rogers offers a by no means unlikely explanation of the pictorial presence of these creatures...
...fact that an African potentate presented Queen Maria Theresa, the consort of Louis, with a Negro dwarf. So fond of the monstrous little character did the Queen become, that her ladies too acquired dwarfs. Soon it became a fashion. The affection which these ladies lavished upon their horrible pets was touching and delightful. Maria Theresa, indeed, would often invite her dwarf...
Lawyer Hays and colleagues sniffed collusion between Tammany Hall and Fascist Italy. A defense fund was raised. Witnesses were guarded and supported. Pre-trial statements by the defense promised demonstrations on a scale that would dwarf the Sacco-Vanzetti spectacle if it were proved, as the defense said convictions would prove, that the Fascist League of America had enlisted pressure from the political overlords of the biggest city...
Lawyer Hays and colleagues sniffed collusion between Tammany Hall and Fascist Italy. A defense fund was raised. Witnesses were guarded and supported. Pre-trial statements by the defense promised demonstrations on a scale that would dwarf the Sacco-Vanzetti spectacle if it were proved, as the defense said convictions would prove, that the Fascist League of America had enlisted pressure from the political overlords of the biggest city...
...eccentricities of the bad man are noteworthy. He worships weird, heathen deities while masquerading as a Caucasian Christian. He knows secret trap doors, cells, torture chambers, depraved henchmen. He keeps a dwarf brother locked up in a stifling cage. In short, he inspires the belief that if anything can be more astonishing than the cinema version of virtue, it is its conception of vice...