Word: albions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rolls of posters, the most sprightly of which were black & yellow, simply marked QUARANTINE. By specific orders no banks or newspapers were picketed or postered but almost every Jewish-owned shop in Germany received both attentions. There was little violence. The New York Evening Post's Correspondent Albion Ross was punched on the back of the neck for attempting to enter a Jewish store (other U. S. correspondents were not molested). In Hamburg a Jew shot a Nazi officer and was himself killed in jail. In Berlin photographers were ready to snap pictures of people attempting to enter Jewish...
Until last week Fred and Hector Redshaw of Industry, N.Y. owned two black bears: Andy and his mate named, despite her sex, Amos. Last week the Redshaws were driving their pets home from advertising a cinema in Lockport. Near Albion their truck broke down. They tied the bears to a fence, started making repairs. A curious jabbering crowd gathered around the nervous animals. Small Peter Mathew Ryan, 5, wanted to pet Andy. . . . His father tore the clawed and bitten boy away, rushed him to a hospital where he soon died, a doctor said mostly of fright...
...flame of anger swept through Albion and neighboring communities. Fuel was added by report of Andy's previously attacking a child, and a constable. State police had to guard the bears in their cage at Industry while the Redshaws rested in jail. Fred Redshaw offered to give Andy to the Rochester Zoo if his life were spared. But Miss Mary Foubister, secretary of the Rochester Dog Protective Association, demanded sterner justice. She appealed to the State Conservation Commission, soon was standing by while a State policeman pumped shotgun slugs into Andy until he was dead...
Most correspondents reported that "only Communists" cheered Grandmother Zetkin, but New York Evening Post's Albion Ross cabled...
...girls do not dream. Out of their dolls and stuffed animals, which make up a kind of fairy conclave named "The Lodge," out of the hedgerow flowers, the old oast-houses, the picnics in Flatropers Wood there emerge, for Selina at least, glimpses of the ancient lyric dream of Albion. But for all that, the girls squabble like fury now & then, kick violently against their nurse's pricks. When the children get the notion that she wants to marry-whatever that might be -they propose for her to Jarman, one of the muckier farm hands. "Not I!" says Jarman...