Word: negresse
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...lovechild of 12, and an orphaned girl-baby called Deodata by her poetic foster-mother, the numerous survivors of the wrecked S. S. Cormorant are all mature women. There are an artist, a circus rider, a novelist, a harlot, a U. S. debutante, a doctor, a mystic, a Negress, many miscellaneous. Most are young, most are beautiful, or soon rendered excessively so by life upon the paradisiacal island of their Robinson Crusade. The aging artist, Anni Prächtel, assumes the presidency of the Mother State, which, by shrewd conscription of mental and spiritual resources, soon luxuriates...
...Manhattan, one William Arthur Ray, Negro, foamed at the mouth, smacked one Julia Green, Negress, on the jaw, was smacked in return, Mr. Ray curled back his thick lips, sank 'his lupine teeth into the hand that had smacked him. Doctors injected Negress Green with the Pasteur hydrophobia serum, placed Biter Ray under the observation system usually reserved for mad dogs...
...about prison conditions for women. A friend charged Mrs. Huck with stealing his overcoat. She pleaded guilty, was sentenced to six months in jail. She spent three days in the Cleveland jail amid bummers, dope users and bad food (according to her account); then was sent with a Negress bootlegger to the prison at Marysville. There she lived with female murderers and thieves, found them kindly and conditions, on the whole, satisfactory. At the end of a month, the Governor pardoned her. She had dinner at the Executive Mansion and set out again-with $5 in her pocket...
...Baltimore, a Negress rode with her husband in a trolley, flung herself angrily upon another Negress beside whom her husband sat. The attacker was fined $16.45 for disorderly conduct...
...keeping a store. At the age of 18 he met Charity Hallet, who became wife and pious companion. At 26, he owned the first "show" entitled " Barnum's Grand Scientific and Musical Theatre," with which he visited towns as far as New Orleans. His prize " exhibit" was a negress who claimed to be 161 years old and to have been George Washington's nurse. Juggling on street corners and selling bibles contributed to his support...