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Word: negress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Birmingham, Ala., Gola Martin, Negress, protested to police that her son Sam had sold her $50 false teeth for 10? to go to a cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swank | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...Atlanta, Annie Marina, 60-year-old Negress, guilty of drunkenness, admitted she had been drinking a beverage made by dissolving mothballs in gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Escape | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

Before sailing on the Rochester thin-haired William Allen White, peripatetic Kansas editor (Emporia Gazette), member of President Hoover's commission, took occasion emphatically to deny that he had kissed or embraced a Negress on his arrival fortnight ago, as reported in the U. S. press. His version of the incident: When the Commission landed in Port-au-Prince a huge crowd was waiting on the pier. Prominent in the crowd was a white-haired old lady who fell on her knees before Editor White shrilly crying: "Deliver us! Deliver us!" Gallant Editor White made no promises, but blew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Commission Returns | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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