Word: races
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Glass. James Maloney of the Glass Bottle Blowers' Association. Philadelphia. said: "We are a vanishing race." Various glass industry representatives complained of European competition, sought protection...
Warlocks and the black arts, hexes and powwows have been neglected by a race of modern rustics who, when their crops are bad or the pigs perish, appeal to the U. S. government. City people, who supposed that the last U. S. beldame had long since ridden up the wind and that the rattle of wild laughter in the autumn air had never been heard since Salem, were surprised to learn of the York witches. They regarded the episode as a weird survival of savage superstition into an era of radios, mechanical birds and spiritualism, of which also there...
...defeat of the first team in its match at the University Squash Courts on Saturday, reduces the University to a tie for third place in the race for the Metropolitan League Championship...
...morning, when Le Train Bleu glided into Monte Carlo Station, His Highness Prince Pierre Marie Xavier Raphaël Antoine Melchior de Polignac, Due de Valentinois, and Comte de Polignac, stepped forth before suspicious, hostile eyes. Proud, race-conscious Monégasques (Monaco natives) despise Prince Pierre as a mere naturalized citizen of Monaco, and a black-hearted Frenchman under his skin. They sneer at the means by which he became Crown Prince-married into it, faugh...
Less panoramic than Black April, and therefore the less powerful, Author Peterkin's present volume is nevertheless a compelling story of human character in elemental contact with love, growth, death. Rich in pathos, it also sparkles with the amusing antics, and ridiculous superstitions of the primitive race...