Word: crows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foibles Poet Gogarty's lighter vein is apt: Only the Lion and the Cock, As Galen says, withstand Love's shock. So, Dearest, do not think me rude If I yield now to lassitude, But sympathise with me. I know You would not have me roar, or crow. When he can manage to subdue his wit something simpler and better emerges: I gaze and gaze when I behold The meadows springing green and gold. I gaze until my mind is naught But wonderful and wordless thought! Till, suddenly, surpassing wit, Spontaneous meadows spring...
...business car'' of President Michael Harrison Cahill of Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. R., was appointed "special traffic representative" in charge of Negro travel. Black, genial Trafficman Rice's chief job will be to persuade travel-loving Negroes to ride Katy's Jim Crow cars to their innumerable conventions...
Constitutional literalism, strangely enough, has become a great issue with the Southern hinds whose consciences permit the grandfather clauses and the Jim Crow laws, and they are now in full and stupid cry against Judge Lowell. The Crawford decision was outstanding as an example of judicial realism of the most clear and intelligent kind, and is unconstitutional only in protest against an unconstitutionality stupendous in its arrogance and mad in its implications. But more interesting, perhaps, than the fate of any one jurist is the whole problem of the redefinition of constitutionality which will face...
...Dollfuss Government. While choir boys shrilled Schubert's mass, only a few blocks away a number of disgruntled young Nazis under police guard were on their hands & knees, picking up one by one paper swastikas that they had scattered in the streets. This was the first crow of triumph that the Dollfuss Government has permitted itself since its struggle against Hitlerism began...
...virtual embargo on tourists to Austria, her unbelievably stupid border skirmishing in which she alienated thousands by killing several Austrian frontier guards, and the active fortification of the Austrian frontier (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week tight-lipped Major Emil Fey, Minister of Public Safety, was able to crow to correspondents...