Word: slave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech lasting two hours (the speech took place on Dec. 3 but was telegraphed from India only last week), the Maharaja said that the Government would assist in the suppression of slavery by buying slaves from those owners who were inclined to sell and immediately liberating them. He reminded his people, however, that complete elim- ination of the traffic would have to be effected at an early date. The sum of about $425,000 had been allotted by the Government, he said, for the purpose of buying slaves.* The Maharaja quoted a painful instance of slavery: "A mother, a slave...
...Nepal, there are 51,419 slaves and 15,719 slave-owners...
Faddish folly, perhaps, but not to be deplored. Art has prospered by being the slave of Fashion. Much great work had never been painted had not the good ladies of the Renaissance believed it fashionable to see their portraits as saints and virgins frescoed upon their walls, or had not the ladies of a later period sighed to see themselves as muses, graces, nymphs...
...water; Washington Irving, "a man with large, beautiful eyes" James Russell Lowell, "brilli- ant, witty, gay"; Henry Clay uttering his battle-cry "California", "the last syllable of which he pronounced in a peculiar way"; Amos B. Alcott, advised to drink milk to make his transcendentalism less foggy; farmers, slave holders, Abolitionists, preachers, pale brides, dark chivalrous gentlemen, all brought strangely back in the letters of this little old maid, out of a dead world, out of a lost time...
...Florence that George Eliot found in Italy and fashioned for her novel Romola has been recaptured by the camera. Amazingly beautiful photography of the strange old sleepy city on the Arno is, next to Miss Gish's playing, the feature of the narrative. Opening with a galley-slave ship scene, the escape of the villain, his marriage with the blind Bardi's daughter, his betrayal of her, his denial of his aged father, his death, follow the outline of the story...