Word: quadroon
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...successor was Sargent Claude Johnson, 51, Boston-born quadroon who has won many a prize, is one of the best artists of the Negro race. Sculptor Johnson submitted a drawing to the Board of Education, the San Francisco Art Commission. Both asked for some changes, which he made. Then, at the suggestion of a WPA official who wanted to use up the remaining clay before it spoiled. Sculptor Johnson made a 31-ft. model. It showed thick-limbed athletes diving, throwing javelins, playing golf, leaping hurdles...
...Start of the Road is a novelized version of Whitman's stay in New Orleans in 1848. John Erskine pictures Whit man falling in love with an intelligent, Paris-educated quadroon, who bears his son. Inconsequential and not very convincing, the book gives an easy, informal portrait of Whitman, sketches of other historic figures, but is enriched with fine savory quotations from Whitman's poems which bring it to life when its story grows labored...
...Their Eyes Were Watching God, an upstanding coffee-colored quadroon outlasts all three of her men-the last only because she was quicker on the trigger than he was-goes back to her village to rest in peace and to make her friends' eyes bug out at the tales of what she and life have done together...
Settled around 1760 by a rich Frenchman and his New Orleans quadroon mistress, the 60-mile stretch of Cane River land was inherited by "free-mulattoes" who married New Orleans mulattoes, brought in French architects to build their houses, had their portraits painted, owned their own slaves. After the Civil War they had to sell out piecemeal to the present owners and antique-hunters, became sharecroppers. But they held on to their aristocratic traditions. To ward off outsiders, they married among themselves, had illegitimate children by itinerant whites, but kept strictly apart from Negroes. Almost white, fine-featured. French-speaking...