Word: crowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White-crowned Dr. Peter Ainslie of Baltimore's Christian Temple "would have made a famous cardinal." A stout-hearted warrior for Peace and Church Unity, Virginia-born, he once made a Virginia audience squirm by telling them how, in a Jim Crow car, he asked a Negro woman to sit by him and cried down the other passengers when they sought to have her ousted. ¶ Author Jones asked two Methodists who is their ablest preacher. Both named Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle of Evanston, Ill., who last spring was hounded as a Communist by a group calling themselves "Paul...
Rowing over a 5-8 mile course, the Third Freshman beat the Exeter All-Class crow at Exeter Wednesday by 1 3-4 lengths. The Crimson time was 2 minutes, 53 seconds...
...hate to eat, myself, but I think you boys over in Cambridge ought to be allowed to drink beer in the Dining Halls. Why, the Cambridge crow in England trains on it, and they win lots of races. How do I know? Oh, I've heard all about it. Personally I don't like it, or that is, I don't think I would. You see, I really don't imbibe in that way. I want to be the same as the First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt, and let other people have it, but not touch it myself...
...crow-sized bird with set-back legs which make it stand upright like a penguin, the murre breeds in colonies on Arctic cliff ledges. It lays an egg pointed at one end so that it rolls in a circle, does not fall off the ledge. Once hunted for oil as were the extinct great auks, murres have grown scarce, are now protected by treaty between the U. S. and Canada. Only Indians and Eskimos may eat their eggs or kill them for food...
Ziff Co. was established twelve years ago by William Bernard Ziff, now 34. Starting with the Chicago Defender he built up a large clientele of Negro publications whose efforts to solicit national advertising are hampered by "Jim Crow" rules in some Southern office buildings, tacit prejudice elsewhere. Most Negro newspapers are too indigent to maintain traveling representatives. One of Adman Ziff's first tasks was to persuade Negro publishers to audit their circulations accurately. In some cases he paid for the auditing himself...