Word: fawning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...center of Negro population, according to the census of 1920, is three-quarters of a mile northeast of Rising Fawn, Ga., in the extreme northwestern corner of the state. (The center of entire population of the country is near Whitehall in southwestern Indiana.) This indi- cates that the Negro population is spread east-and-west about as the white population, but as a whole is decidedly farther south. Between 1910 and 1920 the center of Negro population moved 9.4 miles east, and 19.4 miles north. Before that, its general trend had always been south- westerly...
...those qualities essential to the portrait painter. His picture of the Polish guide is unforgettable. "He was a strange wild creature, tall, stalwart, and handsome, with bold features, dark hair hanging in long locks round his cheeks and an expression in his eyes like that of a startled fawn. Not that I can remember ever to have seen a startled fawn: however, his expression, was just that which the startled fawn is supposed to wear...