Word: massa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunday night, on the eve of the meeting of the Republican National Committee President & Mrs. Hoover entertained potent Republican politicians: Colonel & Mrs. Rentfro Banton Creager of Texas (see p. 48), Louis Kroh Liggett of Massa- chusetts, Dr. Work...
When the news reached the press, George S. Wilson, District Director of Public Welfare, ordered the rides to cease. Edward L. McNamara, another trusty, now rides with the prison doctor. Morris Massa Barnard, superintendent...
...Ford, owner of the D. T. & I. had sold his property to an unannounced purchaser. Agent in the transaction was the firm of Charles D. Barney & Co., Manhattan brokers. Probable real purchaser was Pennroad Corp., Pennsylvania Railroad holding company. Whoever the new buyer, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton's Ole Massa had certainly sold it down the river...
...pickings and Bible-shoutings are just what a certain class of people, 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...
Cincinnati last week dedicated the two new wings of its Music Hall, made it the occasion for a Greater Cincinnati Industrial Exposition. A thousand school children attended one afternoon, sang praises before a new marble bust of Stephen Foster, onetime Cincinnatian, composer of "Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground," "Old Folks at Home," Old Kentucky Home" and "Old Black...