Word: taliaferro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glimpses of Harlem and faked pictures of lynchings. Obviously, such material was intended to boost the Negro circulation of the Graphic. But the sheetlet, in its exuberance for the sensational, went too far and stepped on the toes of many a Negro when it set about to flay Booker Taliaferro Washington. Said the Graphic: "There are not lacking thousands of intelligent Negroes who believe that Booker T. Washington, consciously or unwittingly, betrayed his color and his kind...
...greeted "tapping" of Lawrence M. Noble of Syracuse, N. Y., first man chosen by Skull and Bones; of Guy Richards of Woodmere, N. Y., first man for Scroll and Key; of John C. Lord of Tarrytown, N. Y., first man for Wolf's Head; and of Van Buren Taliaferro of Manhattan, first for Elihu Club. The even greater honors of being 15th and last man "tapped" for the four societies (in the order named) fell respectively to Philip W. Bunnell of Scranton, Pa., Hannibal Hamlin of Brooklyn, James G. Butler of Hartford, Conn., and George F. Scherer* of Washington...
...points of view of both races, and appreciate the inevitable conditions that exist. Thanks to the continued assistance of the whites, the Negroes in this country are far better off here than in any other political state in the world. With the maxims and example of Booker Taliaferro Washington ever before them, they will continue to advance. Circumstance has imposed limitations which cannot be bridged in six decades. I believe that the objections of some misguided souls to the time-honored word "Negress" is extremely ill advised. As for the vague term "colored" ? thanks...
This is not a quotation from an archaic book on medicine. It is a theory put forward by Dr. W. H. Taliaferro of the University of Chicago, who has been experimenting with rat blood as a cure for sleeping sickness. "Rats are immune to sleeping sickness," says he. "There are evidences that they produce certain immune bodies in their blood which will have an important bearing on the eradication of the disease...
Just as some of the costumes hark back to ancient times, so does much of the comedy. Jimmy Hussey is largely responsible for the attempted fun-making. Also on the list are Arnold Daly (his debut in a revue), Carlotta Monterey, Edith Taliaferro, Marie Nordstrom...