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Died. Marvin McTyeire Parks, 54, President of Georgia State College for Women; in Tampa, Fla.; when struck by automobile driven by a Negress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 10, 1927 | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...Palatka, Fla., on the Atlantic Coast Line Railway, husky voices suddenly echoed through the Pullman steel. Passengers jerked themselves out of their various shades of somnolence, as the train stopped. Curious, they got their noses dirty trying to look through the screens. They heard one Blanche S. Brookins, Negress, snorting and scolding: "Yoh all let me 'lone, yoh whaht trash, I gotta ticket!"* Going outside, they saw the irate Negress and her baggage being turned over to an officer at the station. The train rolled away and the passengers drowsed again. Mrs. Brookings spent the night in the county...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pullman Ouster | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...addicts were able to sleep normally. In 72 hours they stopped asking for drugs. Their appetite for food increased; they wanted food every minute, particularly sweet food. Their skin became firm; they showed no sign of nervousness; they were declared cured, at least temporarily. Only one came back, a Negress who yearned for languor. And what, doctors wondered, will narcosan do for the shadowy, secretive regiments of U. S. addicts to opium, to morphin, to cocain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Narcosan | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...also true that 12½% of the presidents of the Delaware & Hudson committed suicide." One of the eight had done so. There was also the time when Mr. Underwood was the butt of witticism by Chairman William Haynes Truesdale, of the Delaware, Lackawanna. "Who was that Negress you were talking to?" boomed the Erie's President Under ood at Mr. Truesdale. Mr. Truesdale, who always seemed sleepy eyed, answered: "She was not a Negress. That was Phoebe Snow and she has just come back from Buffalo on the Erie." Mr. Underwood, during his 26 years' presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Out and In | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

Lulu Belle-Excitement when a flamboyant Negress (Lenore Ulric) waves a red flag in the face of a bull-headed lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: List | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

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