Word: crowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Woodsman." Certain wistful biographers have hoped that John James Audubon was really the lost Dauphin, sneaked from Paris during the French Revolution. Audubon himself may have thought he was. A vain man, he affected popinjay dress against the dun background of Pennsylvania Quakers, crow's raiment in dandiacal English society. At any rate, his origins were mysterious. He was, perhaps, born in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo (now Haiti) in 1785. Little is known of him before he was 9, when he was legally adopted in France by one Captain Audubon, who said he was the child...
...sides of the "O" to paint it with the seats of their pants. By nightfall the streets of Eugene were strewn with strips of clothing, eleven motorists had been arrested for driving "with obscured vision.'' bruised, bleeding and half-naked Staters were on the road to Corvallis. Crowed President C. Valentine Boyer of the University of Oregon: "Today's outcome is what our visitors could expect after coming over here to crow over...
...tactics. Moreover, Negroes, having been barred, openly or tacitly, from many an old line union, have little incentive to stand by white strikers, although C. I. O. has embraced Negroes more willingly than A. F. of L., which frequently carries discrimination to the point of segregating them in "Jim Crow unions" affiliated with its regular craft unions. The only Negro-controlled international union in the U. S. is the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters...
Last July when Missouri's new Governor Lloyd Crow Stark was enjoying a vacation in Alaska his State Board of Fund Commissioners sold $3,000,000 worth of State building bonds to Baum, Bernheimer Co., a Kansas City bond house, at an "emergency" private sale. St. Louis bond dealers, who had not been given a chance to bid, charged that the State lost $50,000 on the premium of $100,000 paid by Baum, Bernheimer. St. Louis' Post-Dispatch made the most of it, pointed out that the same sort of thing had happened twice in the previous...
...Crow...