Word: crows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom theatre-goers found it easy to think of as Warren Gamaliel Harding. The audience sees President "Easy" Markham (Actor Berton Churchill) as a stately tool of politicians who run the nation from a poker table stuck away in a private nook known as "the crow's nest." Because of his unwholesome faith in these cronies, he allows the White House to degenerate into what one of the characters described as an automat ("Because when you want to take something out, you just put in a coin"). When the graft is on the point of being exposed...
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...Detroit invasion of Windsor. It did find, however, interminable queues of applicants lined up before the liquor-store doors. The first U. S. citizen to make a purchase was one Fayette Bristol of Highland Park (Detroit suburb); Mr. Bristol toted away an undetermined quantity of Old Crow whiskey...
Levees crumbled in the night. Frosts added their malediction. Like a surly brown earth serpent uncoiling, the great river straightened its devious winding down a crow's-flight line of 600 miles...
...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 God must be white considering the way he treats you. No doubt there will be a 'Jim Crow' law in your heaven. I heard you sing 'Sweet Land of Liberty' but I don't see how you do it. ... But . . . you have some friends not afraid to sit at the table with you. I have done so, and I've drunk bootleg liquor with...