Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Wesley founded U. S. Methodism by his visit to Georgia in 1735. In 1784 the Methodist Episcopal Church took form. In 1845 slave-owning Methodists of the South established the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Although recent years have witnessed some comity between the two branches, regional prejudices have prevented unification. They exchanged fraternal greetings last week...
...princess, chaste as a buttercup, up for marriage to the one who succeeds in unraveling three riddles she propounds. The Prince of Persia comes, dares to try, to risk his head if he should fail, guesses right. But Turandot, poor in sporting blood, will not give in, causes a slave girl to die for not disclosing the Prince's identity, holds herself stubborn, until the Prince's kiss tells her that his name is Love...
...performance at the Scala last week ended with the death of Liu, the slave girl, the first scene in the last act, at which point Toscanini turned to the audience, said: "The composer worked until this point and then died." It seemed uncanny to the audience that it should have ended with the slave girl's aria, the one big bit of unaffected melody. They waited eagerly to hear the ending written by Puccini's friend, Franco Alfano, from Puccini's notes, with which the Scala company is already prepared. They commended, meanwhile, the superb Turandot of Rosa Raisa...
...What composer gave his last glorious melody to a slave girl...
Died. Charles Brown, 80, one-time colored slave, who cooked the last meal eaten by General Stonewall Jackson before his death in the battle of Chancellorsville (1863); at Washington...