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