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Word: authorities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have just read Negro White's "Judge Lynch." What a dirty lot of lies. I have read a number of articles by both white and black, but never has my blood boiled before. I think if anyone ever needed a coat of tar and feathers its the author of "Judge Lynch." Yes, we do lynch the Negro in the South. Some day the North will be sorry they didn't try the same cure for certain things that the Negro knows will cost him his life-the white man is subject to the same law. I would love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...print a picture of "Negro White," the author. It might have well been "white Negro" because you say he safely passes for white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...thinking, how much of his nervousness might derive from a gracious lady of 71 who sat there calmly watching the ceremony. She, Mrs. Beatrice Webb, last week proved again that she is the same independent, energetic person who, even before her marriage in 1892 to Sidney Webb, was an authority on economics. She has collaborated with him since on more than 30 books and tracts. In 1923 after 30 years as active members of the Labor and Socialist movement they framed their first indictment of capital in The Decay of Capitalist Civilization. Though she is now automatically Lady Passfield, Beatrice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gnome in Ermine | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...years have passed since the German peace emissaries at Versailles were forced to sign a document which was a bitter disappointment to all friends of justice and true peace. . . . Germany signed it without admitting that she was the sole author of the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anniversary of Guilt | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Example of Author Bedel's style (description of a fat lady in distress): "The gelatine of her neck quivered, and her hand, describing a vast detour, arrived at her throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Green Paper | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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