Word: mulatto
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Down to a poor fourth place went Fuller Warren, former governor (1949-53), who had proclaimed: "If race-mixing comes to Florida, there will result from it a mulatto race." Up to a poor second went White Supremacist Sumter Lowry, retired National Guardsman and popeyed patriot, who highlighted his first campaign by displaying a blown-up picture of his eight-year-old daughter: "Now what kind of a man would I be if I didn't fight for a little girl like that...
...crammed ship out of Singapore in 1942. Four of the ship's survivors lived 14 weeks on a raft; they knew each other only by nicknames. One, "Biscuit," was an Irish bartender; another, "Bulldog," a sahib type. "Number Four" was the ship's purser, a one-legged mulatto. "Sea-Wyf" (mermaid) was a handsome young woman of mystery, and much of the story concerns her saintly attempts to impose decency on the three men, although thirst, storms, submarines and rat-infested atolls worked to turn them into cowards and murderers...
...save food and water, the mulatto was left overside to swim for it. Ten years after the event, Bulldog, by now a Member of Parliament, receives a letter from the supposedly dead man threatening to expose the others as having plotted his death. Three men gather at Bulldog's castle in the Isle of Skye to decide what to do. The novel's outcome should not be told, for suspense is the book's chief asset. But it also points a moral-clear to all castaways-that no man is fit to judge another's right...
...Lion. If Scott drew on his tradition, his greatest disciple created the most popular works in igth Century French literature by sheer personal exuberance. The son of an illegitimate mulatto general from Santo Domingo, Dumas crashed the august Comédie Française with a rip-roaring historical drama, Henri III and His Court, and became the kinky-maned lion of Paris...
...torrential storyteller who has been compared with France's famed mulatto novelist, Alexandre Dumas, Yerby says: "Dumas was proud of his race, and so am I, but I don't flaunt it." Few of the Southern housewives who buy Yerby's slick melodramas of sex, sadism and violence know that their favorite author is a Negro. Nothing in his stories of strutting white aristocrats, swooning heiresses and yassuhing darkies would declare it, and jacket blurbs, noting that the Georgia-born author formerly taught at Florida A. & M. and Louisiana's Southern Univesity, leave...