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Down Mobile way, darkies croon to the night on soft spring evenings, grin, tip hats, as they shuffle past white "gemmen," still their noble lords if not their masters. Fortnight ago, Clarence Darrow, keen-witted, sharp-tongued Northern lawyer, stopped in Mobile, Ala., made speeches to wide-mouthed black men attacking Negro lynchings. On street corners hot-blooded white men gathered, muttered curses on Mr. Darrow, "damned Yankee" agitator. At Negro schools, able Lawyer Darrow repeated his speeches to the "new Negro." Klan circulars said he said: "Resist your white masters. ... I see you pray, but to what good? . . . Your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Darrow v. Klan | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Gaelic Songs--Hebridean Islands, arranged by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Kishmul's Galley The Seagull Island Sheiling Song Milking croon Churning lilt Death croon Sea-Reiver's Song...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MINO HAGER TO SING IN NEXT WHITING CONCERT | 3/1/1927 | See Source »

...UNDERSTANDING HEART? Peter B. Kyne?Cosmopolitan ($2)* In that magazine-story paradise, the California redwood forests, where the sheriffs have hearts of gold, the women shoot like the late Annie Oakley and the manly forest rangers croon Kipling, Author Kyne sets another of his soul-satisfying yarns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

Gaelic Songs.--(Miss Pratt): Hebridean Islands (arranged by Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser): Kishmul's Galley, A Harris Love Lament, A Raasay Lilt, Milking Croon, Spinning Song, Tir-Nan-Og, A. Hebridean Sea-reiver's Song...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRD WHITING CONCERT AT 7.45 | 2/14/1918 | See Source »

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