Word: crow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cake Batter. Nobody was working any harder to do it than Hearstling Pro Tern Fannie Hurst. Novelist Hurst, 60, wore a life-sized enamel calla lily, a jade ring as big as a crow's egg, and a jade-and-gold bracelet so heavy that she had to take it off to type her stories. Her journalistic style was equally flamboyant. She mixed metaphors as vigorously as a housewife mixing cake batter: "Even more than the cloak-and-dagger, who-done-it crime of 'grand passion,' the motives here involved strike, straight as the crow flies, into...
Filing for a permanent injunction against A. B.C. that would ban all its activities within the state, Goldstein's move gave the Congress 20 days to change its Jim Crow ways. A. B.C. officials were expected to do exactly what they did when similar action was taken in Illinois three months ago - nothing. A.B.C.'s 1950 national championship, the World Series of bowling which may draw as many as 30,000 entrants, was set for Columbus, Ohio in April. A.B.C. seemed safe so far. But with A.B.C. facing the fact of diminishing domain elsewhere, it would probably...
...spindly, sharp-beaked crow of a man who spends his winters near Rutherford, N.J., where he was born, Marin has always loved solitude and the sea. His letters to his friend and sponsor, the late great photographer Alfred Stieglitz, were often signed "The Ancient Marin-er." They spoke most of the weather, and mentioned fishing, berrying and hunting as often as art. One such letter, written five years ago, hints at the bigness and joy that the old man still puts in his paintings...
Last week in East St. Louis, III. (pop. 75,000), Jim Crow lost another tattered feather. The school board ordered an end to the practice (also followed by many smaller towns in southern Illinois) of segregating Negro children in the public schools...