Word: racial
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...China, where he and a colleague, at the risk of their own lives and under the most trying circumstances, carried on a winning fight against the ravages of the pneumonic plague. After all other Americans had turned back, discouraged by the obstacles of lack of equipment and persistence of racial superstition, Dr. Strong took up the work and in spite of almost insurmountable difficulties carried it to a successful completion...
...Turks were driven out, and a firm buffer protected the West from the East. The preservation of Hungary thus brought about has been most remarkable, and its solution has been the early assertion of a strong spirit of national unity. This unity had to struggle against feudalism and the racial problem. The solution of the latter was a compromise between the usual solutions. The conquerors did not amalgamate with the conquered, but they did give them full political rights. This national unity has maintained the politics much the same today as at the time of the conquest...
...wrath. This James humor has often been referred to as of Irish origin. If so, it certainly throve well on American soil. It pointed also to the wide vision of real culture and to experience with men and books, thus showing itself to be cosmopolitan or universal, rather than racial. Certainly old and young, rich and poor, foreigner and native, appreciated its great charm and penetration. Sometimes a mere trifle would call out one of these rich, explosive extravaganzas of speech. I remember listening one day with trepidation when Mr. James, Sr., gathered his face into a half-humorous, half...
...Nigger" fulfills the promise of "Salvation Nell,"--both good and bad. It is a play full of emotional variation; it thrills the audience and leaves it tired. Excitement is added to horror, and despair to feverish action. Mr. Sheldon exhibits racial hatreds, sinister politics fierce love, and pathetic optimism against a background of a tragic past. It is the story of a Southern governor who discovers that his grandmother was a negress, through the unsolicited investigation of the anti-prohibition interests. Mr. Sheldon has staged the consequences of that discovery with a skiff that is certain, and big with...