Word: jamaican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately for themselves, the Jamaica workers did not heed, last week attacked His Majesty's dusky constabulary with sticks & stones. It was the most disorderly Jamaican occurrence since the Negro revolt of 1865. The constables opened fire, as was their duty. Result: six deaths; seven critical injuries; 43 others hospitalized; and resumption of work in the cane fields...
Products of Dominions & Colonies praised by the King-Emperor included Jamaican eggplant, Irish bacon, Rhodesian tobacco, Kenya coffee, Australian butter and sealskin slippers from New Zealand, of which His Majesty said, accepting a pair, "I think they will be very warm, comfortable and useful. All my brothers have gloves of sealskin...
...never been a member of either house of Britain's Parliament. Last week the world's most flamboyant black man, famed Marcus Garvey, set out to be the first of his race to gain that distinction. An M. P. seemed a small prize to the fat little Jamaican who swept into Manhattan's Harlem during the War, proposed to ferry the whole Negro population of the U. S. back to Africa, plumped for a Black Christ, made himself Provisional President of the African Republic, Imperial Potentate of the Valley of the Nile, Emperor Marcus I of Ethiopia...
...sores with applications of dried toad venom and which made Shakespeare note: "Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head (As You Like It). From glands located behind the eyes of 7,500 U. S., German, Jamaican, Uruguayan, South African, Chinese and Japanese toads. Dr. Chen extracted potent drugs (adrenalin, cholesterol, ergosterol, and two digitalis-like substances) which modern scientific medicine considers indispensable. Apparently toads do not use these potent drugs in their own economies. When Dr. Chen removed the glands from several toads, they seemed...
Planet P is not the only celestial body up Professor Pickering's sleeve. In 1924, the year he resigned from Harvard to work at his private Jamaican observatory, susceptible Uranus was again notably perturbed. He ascribes this activity to possible Planets...