Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, April 24). Running the Bridges defense was a lady veteran of the Strecker fight, and of a lot of other celebrated "liberal" cases, notably those of Angelo Herndon, the Scottsboro Boys and John Strachey. She was Carol Weiss King, 44, a short, swart, athletic Manhattan widow with bushy black eyebrows and thick eyeglasses, a specialist in labor and radical defense work, particularly alien deportations. Examiner Landis was stern with her when she opened her case with a long statement to the effect that Harry Bridges was being railroaded by the Interests...
...Imperial Palace and the British Embassy at Tokyo one day last week was choked with a milling, sweating mob, shouting, singing and waving anti-British banners. After giving the loudest and unfunniest anti-foreign demonstration in Tokyo's history, the leaders, members of the ultranationalist, pro-Axis Black Dragon Society, led the procession to a military shrine. Two hours later the leaders were back to do it all over again for newsreel photographers. When the demonstrators finally dispersed they left a wreath on the Embassy's gate with the inscription: BRITAIN IS DEAD...
...Pinky Smith's real coup was executed in 1938, when in an insulting blob of black type he announced that the Chronicle was fed up with the current warehouse strike, demanded that the warehouse operators and the C. I. O. make peace. The union replied with a suggestion that Editor Smith print the facts or mind his own business. Editor Smith countered with the announcement that "the Chronicle makes it its business to stick its nose into any so-called private row which affects the broad public interest." The union snapped back: "That being the case...
Prodigiously built (he was six feet four), prodigiously dressed (in black suit, broad black hat and flowing black Windsor tie), a prodigious writer, talker, fighter and drinker, Pitchfork Smith worshipped at the shrine of one man and one man only: William Cowper Brann (the Iconoclast). Once, on Brann's birthday, his disciple got drunk, visited his grave at Waco, and sat there all night communing with the soul of his friend, for every drink he took himself pouring an equal amount of whiskey...
Novelist Godden is 31, has spent most of her life in India, knows her hill country. Little happens in Black Narcissus, but the charm of the characters, and their talk, keep the story moving. U. S. readers will find few better novels for hammock reading this summer...