Word: swarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Syrian sheik named Monte Bourjaily left his home in the hills of Lebanon for the land of opportunity. Op|portunity knocked. After an education at Syracuse University, he became general manager of United Features Syndicate. Swart, indefatigable, he was chiefly responsible for United Features' growth in business-from $120,000 in 1927 to over a million this year...
From another sector of the courtroom the jury was scrutinized by a swart, heavy Hawaiian who wore spectacles and chewed gum. A trolley motorman. he was Joseph Kahahawai. It was his son and namesake whom Mrs. Fortescue, Lieut. Massie and the two sailors were accused of kidnapping last January from the steps of the same courthouse, shooting to death in the Fortescue cottage and then carrying out toward Koko Head, where they were arrested. Father Kahahawai was there to watch U. S. justice done. Near the defendants sat the other figure most involved in the Territory's most sensational...
Hanno, the Carthagenian, swart of brow, Steering his blistered wooden ships...
From one Mexican village to another this winter a white man traveled, asking for and intently listening to music. A swart Mexican accompanied him, explained to Aztecs and Tarascans that it was their own native music the stranger wanted to hear, not the imported hodge-podge played in Mexican cities. The stranger was interested in the rude, primitive sounds made by the chirimia (clay pipe), the marimba made of gourds, the teponaztle, which is the Mexican Indians' drum, the noisy basis for all their music. Indians took to calling the white man Chokopul which means "one of wandering wits...
...other parts of town, other galleries honored two of the U. S. drama's ablest decorators: tousle-haired Robert Edmond Jones at the Bourgeois Galleries, swart Jo Mielziner at Marie Sterner...