Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turner, until Booker Washington silenced him in the '90s, advocated all U. S. Negroes to follow. Captain Harry Dean's call, issued at the turn of the Century, did not reach the race in a broadcast manner and was even less successful than the short-lived Black Star Line of Jamaica's Marcus ("Black Moses") Garvey, who was deported from the U. S. last year. Back-to-Africa movements, implying escape as the answer to the assimilation v. segregation problem, are nowadays viewed with scorn by progressive U. S. Negroes...
...DARK STAR-Lorna Moon-Bobbs Merrill...
Born under a dark star, Nancy Pringle never knew whether it was the Master of Fassefern who had sired her, or Willie Weams, the groom. Divot Meg, the village's woman, out of compassion for Nancy, swore it was the master, then strangled Nancy's mother lest she quaver her own doubts in the matter. Others, less generous, preferred to believe it was the groom; hoped thereby to establish superiority over the spirited little orphan. The flaccid minister took her in; his wife sanctimoniously bullied her; his old mother defended her in malicious warfare with the wife...
...Dark Star is a first novel of impressive calibre...
...meet with the Blue at New Haven he took a second in the 220, but through an error on the part of the judges, failed to place in the 100, although crossing the line at the heels of Kieselhorst the Yale star and ahead of both A. E. French '29, and MacDonald, who were awarded second and third places. French conceded his position on the team making the trip to the intercollegiate at Philadelphia to the 1930 man, and it is expected that the newly elected Captain and Kieselhorst of Yale will be the pair to compete against the representative...