Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sylvia" Delibes a Les Chasseresses b Intermezzo et Valse lente c Pizzicati d Cortege de Bacchus Suite from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn a Overture b Scherzo c Wedding March Symphonic Poem, "Dause Macabre" Saint-Saens Oriental Fantasy, "Islamey" Balakirev Waltz, "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Marche Slave Tchaikovsky
...less, she was hardboiled; when a Salvation Army captain came to save her soul, she planned to seduce him and when a lady threatened a double cross, Diamond Lil stabbed her in the tenderloin district. Despite her efforts, Gus Jordan, the bowery boss, is caught eventually, for white slave trafficking. The Salvation Army captain, really a member of the police force, is his captor; Diamond Lil cuddles into his arms at the end saying, "Boy, I knew you could...
...heavy as a curtain, that a splendid emperor had ruled the ruinous country- were it not for the fortress which still stands up on the hilltop, a black fist against the sky, the citadel of Christophe, the monument of a man born no one knows where, mysteriously named, a slave and a king, whose enemies defeated him. There is a rumor that Christophe with his own hands, at night, buried gold in the huge walls of his astonishing battlement; and there are holes in its masonry where men have tried to find the king's treasure...
...exhibition, while not so numerous as those of her husband, are equally valuable. Two of Mrs. Browning's works to be seen in the Memorial Room, "The Battle of Marathon," and "Essay on Mind," were written when she was still in her teens. One of her poems, "The Runaway Slave," is the rarest work in the exhibition, and a collection of her sonnets, privately printed in 1847, with a facsimile of a manuscript of one of the sonnets, is probably the most valuable. Two presentation copies of her works, one, "Casa Guidi Windows," and the other, "The Seraphim and Other...
...goods was a comparatively simple matter. Nearly every town of any importance had its red brick factory owned by a thrifty Yankee who combined the qualities of feudal lord, social mogul, town benefactor. His employees admired him, had simple wants, were content with frugal wages. Raw cotton from the slave states was cheap and plentiful. The New England mills had a virtual monopoly of U. S. textile manufactures. The thrifty Yankee prospered, passed his factory down from generation to generation. The Civil War upset many a factory, but that was only a passing indigestion compared to modern ailments...