Word: crowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nigger men" and even more most certainly not the cowered and much outraged white women. . . . Maybe I am wrong, but it seems to me that if in spite of Ku Kluxes and Jim Crow laws, "niggers" are good enough to be made the sons, daughters, aunties, uncles, cousins, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law and concubines of the high-and- mighty Southern gentlemen of Poynter's ilk there should be little room for complaint from them when a few humble but learned magazine editors and managers persist on "putting themselves down on equality with Negroes...
...ticket!"* Going outside, they saw the irate Negress and her baggage being turned over to an officer at the station. The train rolled away and the passengers drowsed again. Mrs. Brookings spent the night in the county jail and was fined $500 for violation of Florida's "Jim Crow" law, which forbids Negroes to use railroad accommodations set apart for whites. Now, as everyone knows, Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays, shrewd lawyers, are friends of all races; in fact, in 1925, they defended the source of all races at the famed "monkey trial" in Dayton, Tenn. Mr. Darrow...
...SINGING CROW-Nathalia Crane-A. & C. Boni ($2). A dreadful eventuality has not yet come to pass-the growing up of Miss Nathalia Crane. Her songs are still those of a little Brooklyn girl for whom hydrants must be gnomes and subway trains coffin worms. Nor has anyone yet dismally and satisfactorily explained the marvelous process by which a slender chit-she is only 13 now- became possessed of the divine afflatus, plus a vocabulary that would give nightmares to a lexicographer...
...title poem of her new volume is a narrative, in couplets of prodigious tune and cacophony, of a crow whose beak was shot away by an Indian arrow. So marvelously could he then sing that universal applause shook the marshlands. The scrub oaks roared, the cattails clicked, The bumblebees lay down and kicked. A council of crows sat to hear the amazing music and departed mystified, all but a nunlike raven, who found the beakless Caruso and adored...
...final ceremony of a four-day celebration to inaugurate as president of Fisk young Thomas Elsa Jones, last year a graduate student in sociology at Columbia University, chosen by the Fisk trustees, after a long search, to fill the boots of Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie, against whose alleged "Jim Crow" methods Fisk students struck last year (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925). To give President Jones a good send-off and to impress Fisk students with the permanence of the Fisk policy of a white president (often they have asked for a black), Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath* and his fellow trustees arranged...