Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Door Was Open. The sheriff explained later: "The trouble was a report had got around that the Negro had killed me. The men were pretty riled up and when they didn't find me at home, they thought maybe I was dead...
...Memory. At the inquest, Tom Carswell, the Negro who had shared Hill's cell, shook perceptibly as he was questioned. "They were white and there were two of them," he said. Did he recognize them? "I know just about everybody around here, but I never saw those two before." Wispy-haired Coroner C. C. Thompson, who is also Mclntyre's town butcher, asked: "You probably couldn't identify the men if you saw them again, could you?" "No, suh," said Carswell eagerly...
...Around the square, the loafers settled back and talked it over: "He was a bad nigger, all bad." Picky Pie had worked in the chalk mines, but mostly he bootlegged liquor. He had been arrested several times before, once for shooting at a white boy just to make him jump. They snorted at the reports that he supported his crippled father and three sisters besides his wife and three children...
Alice (now known as Jenny) wears slacks and a gold crown around the house, takes an immediate fancy to Kazimir and informs him brusquely: "We will go yachting in the moonlight. Here's a check, get yourself a yacht...
...Yemenite Jews, now 45,000 in number, take their name from the corner of Arabia where they were cut off for centuries from the rest of Jewry. In their isolation they were not touched by the edict of famed Rabbi Gershom Ben Judah ("Light of the Exile"), who, around the year 1000, at a synod in Western Germany, banned polygamy for French and German Jews.* The Yemenites clung to the Old Testament rule of David (at least eight wives), Solomon (1,000 wives and concubines) and Herod (nine wives). Poverty has always limited the custom, and limits it sharply today...