Word: ebon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richard P. Strong of Harvard, with Smithsonian assistants, is to cross Africa from Liberia to Mombasa studying diseases of men, plants, animals. (The University of Witwatersrand, Transvaal, lately sent far and wide through Africa for specimens of herbs, roots, flowers, barks, saps used by ebon witchdoctors in their religious rites, to discover new medicinal agents...
...life-giving light. In darkest Africa, where the shadow made its first appearance; in lower India, where it was next seen; in Sumatra and Java and in the southernmost Philippine Islands, over which it passed in turn -there were wild scenes. Pygmies and giants of the forest humped their ebon forms to shelter. Frenzied Hindus swarmed into the holy River Ganges to propitiate the demon that they could see obliterating the light of day. Borneans smashed their household crockery, gave up business and travel, tore their hair, gnashed their teeth, beat their hairy chests. Mountain-dwelling Filipinos donned armor, pounded...
...play, Costa's Daughter, will soon be unveiled to the glances of Broadway. Bercovici is a Rumanian, born there in 1882. He came to this country in 1916, but no amount of American sunlight and air, fortunately, can erase the swarthy hue of his person or the sleek ebon of hair and mustache...