Word: slaved
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...suggests, by the contrast of shadows, all colors, producers have always been dissatisfied with this virtue of their medium just as with the swift possibilities of its silence. Past experiments with color have been unsatisfactory principally because colors did not reproduce exactly; in this tinted drama involving an English slave and a Viking Princess, the old trouble continues -blue is not blue, brown not brown. Melodramatic episodes of Norse swordplay, and voyaging ships give an old-fashioned atmosphere to a story that could not have been exciting even if it were more intelligently directed. Best shot: the discoverer of America...
...Fuel Administrator in New York State during the coal strike of 1922, ran for Congress unsuccessfully in 1898 and though a life-long Republican, supported Governor Smith. He is 60. Believing strongly in self-control, he stops smoking one month each year to demonstrate that he is no tobacco-slave...
...knight outnumbered and surrounded by ruffians, but Sophie of the flaming red pigtails had caught him at it, and all her life she tried to reconcile that adventurous romantic spirit with the David, right hand man at the bank, David, beloved servant of the community, David, matter-of-course slave to his relatives. "Perhaps Davey will see his way clear to ..." send a bespectacled niece to finishing school, house a carping old-maid cousin, finance the whims and mistresses of a charming but debauched artist brother. Sophie married Davey out of her need for him, but the omnipresence...
Died. Mrs. Rose ("Pinky") Ward Hunt, 77, famed onetime slave; after a brief illness; in Washington, D. C. In 1860 Pastor Henry Ward Beecher bought Pinky for $900. From the pulpit of his Brooklyn church he then sold her to freedom. As Pastor Beecher intended, the sale impressed northerners...
...Major Barnes, 115 (his estimate), old-time Negro slave in Alabama, now residing in Stamford, Conn...