Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston, the bell atop Faneuil Hall tolled mournfully. Beneath it men wearing black neckties, women wearing black rosettes packed into the historic old building. On the platform sat solemn elders in deep mourning. The Liberal Civic League had called the meeting "In memoriam of the death of Liberty and the 1,363 who have been killed in the war of Prohibition." Muffled drums rolled. A bugler blew taps. Chief speaker: Major General Clarence Ransom Edwards, retired, wartime commander of the 26th ("Yankee") Division, who asked for "laws promulgated by the ballot and not enforced by the bullets." When the band...
...Duchess" is Princess Elizabeth of York who recently was three (TIME, April 29) Famed as "Baby Betty" before she could talk, she now asserts, "I am Lilybet the P'incess!" No one else except the Queen rides out so often with the King, in royalty's big, black, softly-purring Daimler. For three years the P'incess has been an old man's darling, may possibly learn in another three years what it is to be a younger brother's slave...
With never a smile, Big Black President Louis Borno of Haiti last week handed correspondents a copy of a cablegram from Washington...
...Chekhov. When he started to write plays (Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard} he got to know the members of Stanislavsky's famed Moscow Art Theatre, married Ac tress Olga Knipper. In 1904 Author Chekhov, 44, died at Badenweiler in the Black Forest. Author of a dozen plays, hundreds of short stories, he never wrote a novel. Though Chekhov has been called "the Russian Maupassant," all good Chekhovians think this intended praise too faint, think a reversal of the phrase would give Maupassant too much credit...
...this ignorant, maltreated population came three figures, great men of all times, black Napoleons. Each had a dream of empire and each desired to create a free country for his fellow-blacks. The first of these was a wizened little doctor who made the Haitians realize that they could achieve their dream. Toussaint was his name; L'ouverture he was called because of his enormous success. When he was trapped by the French, Dessalines and Christopher followed in his footsteps. Although each met a tragic death, they accomplished something, for a black empire had been set up, and despite...