Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philharmonic-Symphony through the dusky music of John Powell's overture "In Old Virginia" and the thumping "Bamboula Rhapsodic Dance" of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, while Tamiris and her Bahamans shattered the Stadium's classic atmosphere with such pulsing jungle rhythms as Manhattanites seldom see outside of Harlem...
...Cape or in the mountains. Between the sheds the Owl lies panting little spirals of smoke in anticipation of the long run past weary towns, isolated farm-houses pallid in the moonlight, black water sleeping in the dim aisles of forests, down through Connecticut, past exclusive suburbs, through Harlem tenaments under Park Avenue into the awakening city, cool in the gray and pink of dawn...
Meanwhile dashing Col. Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "Black Eagle of Harlem," who in 1924 cracked up in Flushing Bay en route to Liberia, announced new plans. On Sept. 15, said the Colonel, he will take off from Floyd Bennett Field on a 7,500-mi. non-stop flight to Aden, Arabia. He secured for the flight a Diesel-powered Bellanca, named it Patience...
...Jarboro's debut the Hippodrome was sold out days in advance, standees were thick in the aisles. From swank Striver's Row to the river slums, Harlem came downtown to welcome her, filled one-third of the house. Tall and good-looking, dark enough to need no makeup in the role of an Ethiopian slave, Jarboro revealed the husky voice of her race, rich in texture, not perfectly schooled. At the end of the aria "Ritorna vincitor" she was recalled three times, not by Negro cheers only...
...must to all men, Death came-before his wife could reach his side -to the second son of famed Jason (Jay) Gould. Day later an announcement was inserted in the Manhattan Press: "With those 'forces for good' grief stricken at the death of Edwin Gould stands the Harlem Eye & Ear Hospital, thanking God for the life of this patron saint of children. ... In memory of such a man all must doubly strive to give to children as he did-service sublimed by love." Apple-cheeked, fuzzy-bearded, benign, Edwin Gould unlike a dozen other descendants of his famed...