Word: canker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smoke-screen has obscured the whole underlying strife of which the case is a symptom. Race hatred is a canker present no less in the vitals of America than in India. South of the Mason-Dixon line the Negro is deprived of almost every constitutional and natural right to which man may lay claim. Lynchings and packed juries are so common where the Negro is concerned that these evils have never been subject of much comment. Whether the Southern white is right or wrong it is impossible thus cursorily to determine, but one of the great unfaced and dangerous issues...
...smoke-screen has obscured the whole underlying strife of which the case is a symptom. Race hatred is a canker present no less in the vitals of America than in India. South of the Mason-Dixon line the Negro is deprived of almost every constitutional and natural right to which man may lay claim. Lynchings and packed juries are so common where the Negro is concerned that these evils have never been subject of much comment. Whether the Southern white in right or wrong it is impossible thus cursorily to determine, but one of the great unfaced and dangerous issues...
...doctor in Breslau. Germany. When he was two years old his father furthered the family's fortunes by changing its name. Emil had a good edu cation and then went to work in his uncle's prosperous coal business. He did well, but a canker ate him: like many romantic boys he dreamed of being a great poet. When he fell in love (at sight) with a girl he called Diana, she encouraged his literary ambitions. He persuaded her to elope with him. they ran away to a little villa in Switzerland, near Locarno, were married before...
...reinforced by local police will guard the dark corners where erring stags were won't to drink their fill. It is said that none but the brave deserve the fair and brave indeed will be the undergraduate who under threat of expulsion finds means whereby he may overlook the canker in the rose or blur the blemish on the girl of his choice...