Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...command of the Eighth Field Artillery at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Col. Bishop is a West Pointer (1897). During the World War he commanded the 159th Field Artillery Brigade, the Third Field Artillery Brigade. He has lived with guns and caissons and horses and the smell of black powder during his whole military career...
Economic Facts. In advising anyone, white or black, slave or free, male or female who expects to go to Buenos Aires the important thing to stress is the terrific cost of living, higher than almost anywhere else. This economic fact is really the basis of the White Slave traffic. Young women are promised and young women are paid for dancing, sums which would be "big money" in Europe, but in the Argentine they are so meagre that the dancer becomes the hostess and the hostess the common or uncommon daughter...
...Green Pastures. The black shepherds of the South make the Bible stories real to their flocks. Since the Southern Negro does not possess a learned, historic imagination, he envisions Scriptural events in terms of his own life. But the sinful city of Babylon is nonetheless real to him because he conceives it to have resembled a series of Negro nightclubs. Nor is the Lord God any less credible because he is imagined as working, like all important beings, in an office with a rolltop desk. From such humble visions, welling out of the fervid spirit of the black man. Playwright...
...time you will find me bobbing around Europe. . . ." White Cargo (British). Several U. S. picture companies wanted to produce this, but Will Hays, supervisor of cinema morals, made clear that he would not sanction it. With W. Somerset Maugham's Rain it was salient on his black list. At last United Artists made Rain with Gloria Swanson, calling it Sadie Thompson; Hays permitted its release, but when producers pointed to this precedent as an argument for letting them bring out White Cargo, even suggesting that it could be disguised under its original title, Hell's Playground, he stood...
That officials of the Fogg Art Museum had received threatening letters from supposed black hand or communist sources as a result of the expenditure of a sum of $50,000 for a painting recently acquired by the museum was revealed yesterday when it was learned that E. W. Forbes '95, lecturer in the Fine Arts Department and one of the directors of the Museum had recently been the recipient of threatening letters after the published announcement last month of the purchase of the rare painting by Botticelli...