Word: mulatto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn Church one Sunday in 1848, a fiery young preacher stood at his pulpit, gesturing at a handsome mulatto girl who sat near him on the platform. Cried he: ''This is a marketable commodity! Such as she are put into one balance and silver into the other. I reverence woman. For the sake of the love I bore my mother I hold her sacred even in the lowest position and will use every means in my power for her uplifting. What will you do now? May she read her liberty in your eyes? Shall she go out free...
...step, but with a fatherly eye more on priggish Myron than on piggish Ora, Author Lewis reports their slow, vicissitudinous careers. Ora finds the fleshpots of Greenwich Village agree with him. He writes one good but unsuccessful novel, the fruit of a brutally selfish love affair with a mulatto girl. Then he supports himself in uneven luxury by literary hackwork (including begging letters), borrowing, sponging. Eventually he develops a flair for playwriting. makes a tidy fortune, goes to Hollywood...
...other hand, U. S. medical records of the last century hold the cases of two white girls and one Negress, each of whom cohabited in close succession with a Negro and a white man. Each of the three bore one white, one mulatto twin...
Helen Gleason, a sprightly New Yorker with a bright little voice, looked odd in the _ shepherdess costumes and mulatto makeup which Bersi the maid wears in Andrea Chenier...
...fire from Marti's fervor, swore he would get in there and fight for Cuban independence. This book is the disarmingly partisan record of how Cuba finally got quit of Spain. His own place in the epic Author Rubens keeps modestly choral: heroes of his tale are Poet Marti, Mulatto General Antonio Macéo, white-bearded, spectacled Máximo Gomez, Cuba herself...