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...employment of pidgin-English to disarm prospective customers-but Musa-Shiya's stroke outdid them all. Students of advertising waited to see what alert U. S. agency would first seize upon the idea to introduce, say, Turkish tobaccos, Italian spaghetti, Swedish locomotives ("Ay bane one strong feller"), Negress pancake flour ("Hump yo'se'f, boy! Pick up yo' knife an' fo'k!") or Jewish haberdashery ("Oy yoy! Soch a fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pidgin Ad | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

Later, in a hospital bed lay Michael Bremant, member of University of Pennsylvania wrestling team, with deep cuts in his legs, hands, back, face. In an adjoining room was his roommate, Francis E. Denniston, with his hands cut up. In jail was Anna Johnson, knife-wielding Negress. In the House of Detention were three black girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Street War | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Keith Spalding's $1,000 for contemporary sculpture was bestowed upon Sculptor Benjamin T. Kurtz for his "Mask of a Nubian Girl" (i. e. Negress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maecenas | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Mary Bethune, negress, founder of the Bethune Cookman College, which has four hundred colored students, ands conditions of so sanguine an aspect that she predicts, "Christian education will wipe out practically all race difficulties in the South." Although a Meneken might object to the qualification of the education, all will agree that such a forecast is most encouraging. The continued payment of the running expenses of this unendowed college, which amount to about $80,000 annually also shows that there is more than thought in the new attitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRESS IN THE SOUTH | 11/3/1926 | See Source »

LULU BELLE?A Negress (light coffee) who made love so well that a French nobleman bore her off across the seas to Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Plays: Jun. 7, 1926 | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

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