Word: criming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Small and pale, he was a man bound to rise because he conducted his business with only his own future in constant view. He wanted some day to have wealth equal to that of the Big Boy, a Chicago politician who protected gangsters from the legal consequences of any crime but murder...
...Fear of Negro progress, not of Negro crime. "The tendency to direct mob violence against successful Negroes has been especially noticeable during the past ten years of lynching...
...Significance is bitterly condensed in two sentences. At the Front, murder, "that very crime on which formerly the world's condemnation and severest penalty fell, becomes our highest aim." The other sentence. "Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades?words, words, but they hold the horror of the world...
Biggest news of the week to Rio de Janeiro editors was neither politics, crime nor disaster, but the arrival in the U. S. of Miss Olga Bergamini De Sa, "Miss Brazil," for an international beauty contest to be held June 8-12 in Galveston, Tex. Shouldering other matter from Rio's front pages were rapt descriptions of how Manhattan welcomed shapely Olga. Rio editors dissertated on the significance of the occasion...
Smalltown newspapers are fun to publish. Along with the small town and county and state news there sometimes comes a chance to champion a cause, to cry a crime, to excite a people, usually a sluggish, smalltownish people. Such a chance came less than a month ago to "the youngest newspaper staff in the country" (not a man over 32)-the staff of the Cherokee Times of Gaffney, a hilltown on the northern edge of South Carolina with a population of 10,000 (including Negroes...