Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...estate, an amount placed by the state at $1,025,000. Because Governor Small disputed many items in the state bill, a Master in Chancery was appointed to report on the exact sum owed. Last week the approaching Chancery decision brought the six-year-old case once more into black, streaming headlines...
Observers felt that M. Trotzky had given the Soviet regime a final black eye before the world by insisting on just those "orthodox" Communist policies of impractical violence and "world revolution" which the shrewd Josef Stalin is seeking to hold in check...
...exhort with the Senior suddenly become Freshman again. Too often these sermons from high finance, high politics, or high poetics, are stodgy, or sentimental, or pluto-patriotic, or even cheap pamphleteering. Mr. McAdoo, for instance, has taken advantage of his position as commencement orator to wave the black flag of the Anti-Saloon League and then attempt to pull a Houdini on his audience by telling them it is identical with the American flag. Such political truckstering is hardly a pleasant foretaste for the graduating Senior...
...atheists. In The World's Work for June Homer Croy gives a survey of organizations which seem to be flourishing in certain schools and universities; united under the simple title of the Junior Athiest League, they include such formidable local societies as the Society of the Godless, God's Black Sheep, The Devil's Angles, and the Legion of the Damned; all sponsored by that non-athletic 4-A which seems to have collegiate ambitions, the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism...
Aaron Douglas, race futurist, contributes striking illustrations to Trombones-black figures in planes of primeval shade...