Word: negresse
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...representative in Denmark. Died. Professor William C. Schluter, 38, able professor of finance in the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance & Commerce; by his own hand (pistol); in Philadelphia. At his death were detectives with a warrant charging him with attempted rape of Negress Victoria Jones, 21. Died. Gerardo Scarpato, 42, Brooklyn racketeer; of strangulation. He was the fifth man to die in supposed reprisal for the murder 18 months ago of Giuseppe ("Joe the Boss") Masseria, onetime head of Unione Sicilione, friend of "Scarface Al" Capone. Masseria was shot to death in Scarpato's restaurant...
...thoroughly deadlocked was the Geneva Conference last week that correspondents covering it had to scratch their heads and write about the nocturnal fun at Geneva's Casino, about the tawdry Geneva theatres now crowded nightly and about the "triumph"' of that yelping, undulant Negress, La Belle Josephine Baker. Songs by Negro and other crooners included "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny," "The Old Folks at Home" and "My Old Kentucky Home...
...white" Press, they would be most pleased if no point were made of their color. White newspapers, they argue, do not specify the color of white-skins. If color must be designated, they can bear to see "John Doe, Negro," "Jane Doe, colored woman," but never "Jane Doe, Negress." Last week the Pittsburgh Courier (Negro weekly) proudly told as important news how the great New York Herald Tribune had apologized for using the word "Negress" in an obscure news item concerning one Susie Lynch. Texas-born City Editor Stanley Walker of the Herald Tribune was quoted by the Courier...
...Reno, Nev., Mrs. Pearl Marconi, Indian squaw, spent a night in tippling, presented her papoose to a friendly Negress, went to city jail, demanded a bed to sleep...
...Nixon-Nirdlinger, the young U. S. citizen who slew her elderly Philadelphia husband (TIME, March 23), was loudly cheered by 1,000 Niceois when she went to court to plead for bail. Bail was denied. The prisoner was returned to the cell which she shares with a French Negress charged with murder, was told that she may have to spend the Summer there awaiting trial...