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...Harper ($2.50). Adventures of a Roman Catholic heroine under Protestant Queen Bess; by the author of Joanna Godden. MARIA PALUNA-Blair Niles-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Latin-American historical romance (Guatemala) treated in the grand manner. JONAH'S GOURD VINE-Zora Neale Hurston-Lippincott ($2). Negro novel by a Negress. Non-Fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 14, 1934 | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...room, she was warned to look out for the old man, but what disturbed her rest was the epileptic lodger throwing a fit. On a visit to the disreputable nearby settlement of Seldom Seen, where the women were all prostitutes and the men mostly black, a half-crazy Negress attacked her in the middle of the night with a razor. Young Johnny, Slovakian miner out on strike, fell in love with her, confessed his literary ambitions and showed her the outline of a novel he was going to write. He had taken a correspondence course in finger printing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Magna Cum Laude | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...other hand, U. S. medical records of the last century hold the cases of two white girls and one Negress, each of whom cohabited in close succession with a Negro and a white man. Each of the three bore one white, one mulatto twin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Jacob & Esau | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...Jacksonville, Fla. "Aunt Mamie" Williams, Negress, complained that worry over her noisy neighbors caused her weight to shrink from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sporoblast | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, Negress Maude Roberts gave $60 to "Prince Ali Baba" for a "vanishing powder" so her sister could vanish from a Washington jail, had Prince Ali Baba (one Grant Reid) arrested when she failed to vanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 23, 1933 | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

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