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...educated to consider Negro life "colorful" and "primitive" expect of the race, just as people of another class expect vaudeville patter and tap-dancing. The pathos, based upon the low temperature of the ground enclosing somebody named Massa, is repetitious. All is redeemed, however, by the humor of a gaunt, pop-eyed blackamoor named Stepin Fetchit, cast as "Gummy," laziest of blackamoor husbands. The unpretentious story, genuinely moving at its best, at its worst a kind of Bostonian black-bottom, deals with an old Negro's denial and final acceptance of modern medical methods. Best shots-Gummy, whose feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...gaunt, barnlike Washington auditorium five blocks away from the White House, where George Washington University was holding its mid-year commencement, went President and Mrs. Coolidge. In the stage wings they slipped on the caps and gowns of scholars and went out upon the platform. There, while college students cheered and Cabinet members, diplomats, professors, patted their hands in approval, Calvin Coolidge adjusted his spectacles to read his last Presidential address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Coolidge Finale | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...fourth quarter Captain Gaunt of the New Hampshire quintet re-opened the attack with two goals. These were followed by several long shots by both teams which tied the score a number of times. NEW HAMPSHIRE HARVARD Stovolosky, r.f. l.g., Rex Tilton, Patch, l.f. r.g., Farrell Small, c. c., Burns Hagstrom, r.g. l.f., Wenner, Ward Gaunt, l.g. r.f., Mahady...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILDCATS TAKE 25 TO 24 WIN FROM HARVARD FIVE | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Score-New Hampshire 25, Harvard 24. Goals form floor--Tilton 3, Gaunt 2, Small 2, Hagstrom 1, Stovolosky 1, Wenner 4, Farrell 2, Mahady 1, Rex1. Goals on fouls-Gaunt4, Hagstrom 3, Wenner 3, Burns 1, Rex 1, Farrell 1. Referee--Towers. Umpire -Rogers. Time Tow 20-minute periods

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILDCATS TAKE 25 TO 24 WIN FROM HARVARD FIVE | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...sculptor extraordinary, is famed for his Gothic cloister in uptown New York City, where medieval sculpture and ornament abound. His works are scattered worldwide, varying in subject from The Descent from the Cross in Paris, to The God Pan on Columbia University's campus. In London stands his gaunt Abraham Lincoln, focus of livid controversy, of which Theodore Roosevelt said: "I have always wished I might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Great Eye | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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