Word: ve
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...danced before the public on Harlem sidewalks accompanied by the raucous tunes of a hurdy-gurdy. Later (in 1922) she was featured in the first all-Negro musical comedy, Shuffle Along. Her last triumph was Florence Mills & Her Blackbirds (London, 1927). Said she before death: "I've not begun to be what I was meant to be." At the largest funeral ever known to Harlem, she lay in a $10,000 copper coffin. Six hundred chorus voices sang Negro spirituals to the accompaniment of 200 musicians...
...told about a new pamphlet he was having printed: "Old Glory will still be on the cover, but in addition to that I've put down below it another picture with the international flag flying above Old Glory, with a serpent on it. And the text will say that all blue noses will strive through the League of Nations, the World Court and other instruments for foreign entanglements, to tear our flag down, and that a vote for foreign entanglements is a vote for frequent wars...
While his friends and backers began to wonder if their "Big Bill" might not have carried a splendid idea a bit too far, Mayor Thompson remained loudly confident. "I'm a guy," he says, "with the guts to speak right out. I've been attacked, lied about and ridiculed. I may not be smart but I'm smart enough to follow in the steps of the guys that made success." First and foremost on Mayor Thompson's list of successful '"guys" is George Washington...
...cycle: "The Carew men have always taken what they wanted, where they wanted it," says fiercely indomitable Hildreth Carew, the present family leader. Eventually Bayliss, attracted no doubt by Elsa's passionate coolness towards him, desires her. "I don't want to fight with you-we've always done that-but I'd rather fight with you than love any other woman I've ever known. I didn't know that till I got away from you-till I had nothing but the memory of that faint blue vein running down your cheek...
...said six months ago that I would put the first woman across the Atlantic in a plane. I've promoted projects in Canada and I've promoted oil wells, and I have been promoting operations in Florida, and now I've promoted the first girl across the Atlantic. That's what she means when she wires 'You done it'"?Thomas Henry McArdle, Miss Elder's manager...