Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Methodist Episcopal Church, South, deaf to the bellowings of his diocesans, spoke out in defense of the De Priest affair: "There is no more justification for the exclusion of a black man and his wife from such a function than there is to exclude a red, yellow, brown or white one. The President and his wife do not select any of them; the constituency does. It is about time for everybody to quit seeing black only...
...Nominated by acclamation Prof. William Moseley Brown for Governor and Capt. C. C. Berkeley for Attorney-General. It left the nomination for Lieutenant-Governor open, in hopes the state Republicans would choose that candidate, thus permitting the two groups to coalesce against the regular Democrats. Nominee Brown, a 35-year-old professor of psychology at Washington & Lee University, was described as the state's "most cantankerous and catamountish campaigner," but when led to the platform he turned out to be a mild-mannered polite gentle man, still trailing a classroom atmosphere after him as he pleaded against bitterness, called...
Tail stiffening like a hoe handle, brown eyes rolling madly, Nelly charged on Wallace, gored him deeply. At the same time showers of buckshot from the guns of shouting farmers added to Wallace's misery, roused his temper. Quickly he raked Nelly's ribs, broke her neck, left her to die, loped across the pasture into a cottage garden. There the Lyme Regis postman, armed with a revolver, stalked the lion through the hollyhocks, shot him dead...
...Brown University Noble Brandon Judah, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba LL.D. Paul Philippe Cret, architect...
...London, a few hours before the French flyers landed in Spain, Sir Arthur Witten Brown lunched with encomiums. On June 14, 1919, he and the late Sir John Alcock started from St. Johns, Newfoundland, in a Vickers-Vimy-Rolls with two Rolls-Royce motors. Next day they Ianded at their precise destination, Clifden, Ireland...