Word: oscar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hugh Gordon Miller and William A. Goodhart, attorneys of New York and Baltimore, with Deputy Marshal Pinkley of New York, left by the Olympic, their destination the new Scottish Court of Criminal Appeal. On their testimony will rest, in part, the fate of Oscar Slater, who did or did not murder a Glasgow woman named Gilchrist, 20 years...
...musical poseur, an esthete of loud noises; his phase of being "the new man" was over and he was already established as well as celebrated. Salome, like most of his other works, produced a new storm of discussion. It was performed once in Manhattan but Metropolitan-goers, disgusted with Oscar Wilde, were disgusted with his story on which the opera is based. It has never been given by the Metropolitan since that first unlucky premiere. U. S. opera-patrons liked better Der Rosenkavalier which, although it was not, sometimes seems to have been written for Rosa Raisa of the Chicago...
Dorian Gray. This is a peculiarly stupid dramatization of Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde's novel, about a youthful rake whose orgies cause a portrait of his pretty face to become more and more hideous. WTallis Clark was good as the Devil...
...nominee, named Oscar De Priest, was by no means the unanimous choice of his fellow blackamoors. William L. Dawson, a Negro who had run against Representative Madden in the April primary and lost by less than 12,000 votes, promised to contest Mr. De Priest's nomination in court. Up-and-coming younger Negroes said that Oscar De Priest was the oldtime Uncle Tom type, not well suited to represent the modern negro in Congress. There was, moreover, a vice-graft shadow on the De Priest record as a member of the Thompson machine, in which he had functioned...
...these obstacles looked small last week and Chicagoans as well as Southerners counted on seeing Oscar De Priest's large, dusky figure in the House chamber next session. The last Negro Congressman was Representative George Henry White who served in the 55th and 56th Congresses from Tarboro, N. C. Before him there were 19 Negro Representatives and two Negro Senators. A majority of them were members of Reconstruction Congresses and men of small education. Ten, however, went to college; five were lawyers; others were preachers, teachers, planters. Seven were born slaves. Both the Senators were elected in Mississippi. Senator...