Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originated, I believe, among the darkies of the South and the correct phrasing-without dialect-is "spirit and image." It was originally used in speaking of some person whose father or mother had passed on-and the colored folks would say-"the very spi't an' image of his daddy...
...white, national church body. But Teamster Allen felt that Methodism was better for Negroes. He bought a blacksmith shop, began holding services, accumulated enough followers so that in 1799 he was ordained by Bishop Francis Asbury, pioneer U. S. Methodist. In 1816 the congregation of Negro Allen's Mother Bethel Church elected him the first U. S. Negro bishop...
...Mother Bethel Church the first weekday, Sunday and night schools for Negroes were opened. Bishop Allen founded the first U. S. Negro publishing house, whence was issued in 1852 the Christian Recorder, oldest continuous Negro periodical. In 1830 U. S. Negroes met at Mother Bethel Church in their first national convention. By the time Bishop Allen died in 1831, he was worth $30,000 and his devoted followers buried him in the churchyard. Later, his tomb was incorporated in the basement of a new church, making it a shrine near which today is a Memorial Museum containing such relics...
...because I believed I could make musical criticism readable even by the deaf." As Corno di Bassetto he succeeded partly by being flip, partly by avoiding, to the scandalized amusement of his colleagues, the technical aspect of music. Nevertheless, Shaw had a sound background. With the aid of his mother and a singing teacher who had moved into their Dublin house, he had developed a skilled but "uninteresting" baritone voice, had learned the piano and mastered in great detail a tremendous lot of musical scores, mostly the operas of Meyerbeer and Verdi...
...Mother Advocate announces that at a meeting last night Stuart Wyeth '38 was elected circulation manager, Laurence S. Levy '39 was elected to the literary board, and Palmer Baker '39 was chosen a Junior Executive as was also Davki Nussebann...