Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week it appeared as though his injury, suffered in the Army game, would keep him on the bench for a second week-end but yesterday Glueck proved his fitness by taking contact work with the rest of the A team, Nevertheless, if he does start against the orange and black Tigers, his invulnerability is so thin that Bill Coleman will probably see a good part of the game...
McNamara was pretty sore at one prank, he declared. "My home was visited, apparently by Harvard students, and they left a little black and white animal in a box. I am asking Postmaster Tague to investigate all those pranks...
...events that the book derives its absorbing interest, but from the way they are described and integrated. Mrs. Lindbergh keenly singles out the small but unusual details that make the story unmistakably real: "The were newspapers on the floor, French ones, old and yellowing, gritty with dust, their emphatic black headlines staring up at the ceiling as they had been staring ever since the old chief had left them there." Yet these are more than mere details, they all add something to the impression the author is trying to create. She goes on to say "and none of these things...
...police, who also watched narrowly those who read their church bulletin boards, pasted with posters urging them to marry in the church. In his palace Cardinal Innitzer switched on his radio, listened to an open-air rally at which 100,000 Nazis shouted "Pfui Innitzer!" and "Hang the black dog!" during a furious speech by Nazi Commissioner Josef Bürckel. Calling the Cardinal a friend of Jews, burly Herr Bürckel declared that negotiations with the Catholics to settle the matter of religious schools and seminaries-hitherto kept secret-were definitely off. Cardinal Innitzer switched off his radio...
...prune-proud San Jose, Calif., at a breakfast that was prunes from end to end, the California Chiropractors' Association suggested in a friendly way that the prune be renamed "Petite Pomme Noire d'Amour" (Little Black Apple of Love). Prune-growers favored simply...