Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over-zealous news-gathering of a Knox-McCormick-Hearstian press. The majority of students are so intent upon fulfilling the strenuous academic requirements of this institution that they are quite indifferent to the radical tongue-wavings of the very few who apparently take sides not from any soul-deep conviction but for the notoriety of it. One might well suppose that if some of the outside alarmists were a little more exposed to any educational system they would be a mite more broad-minded when it comes to criticizing the teachings of a university as well-conceived and directed...
...with allowing Royalists and Fascists to riot their heads off, smashing Communist and Socialist demonstrations ruthlessly. Socialists asked and got the head of Prefect Chiappe as the price of their support of the luckless Daladier government. Prefect Chiappe was forced to resign. To keep him quiet Premier Daladier reached deep into his plum bag for one of the juiciest of all French administrative posts-the Governorship of Morocco. Still gambling on his popularity in Paris, Jean Chiappe turned the offer down...
Dining in a Chatham, Ont. hotel, Composer Sigmund Romberg took a fancy to the hotel harpist, asked her to play Deep in My Heart from his Student Prince. The harpist did not know it. Could she play his Only a Rose? No. His Auf Wiedersehen? No. Composer Romberg ripped off his collar, autographed it, thrust it at the harpist, finished his dinner collarless...
...Deep Dark River begins when Mary Winston, well-born Southern lady, only woman lawyer in Clarksville, Miss., accepts a routine case growing out of a shyster lawyer's theft of a Negro client's cow, is quickly involved in a complex and dangerous intrigue, uncovers a plot to hang an innocent and friendless Negro. Honest, stubborn, self-respecting, acutely conscious of her social and moral responsibilities, Mary has already made enemies by her interference with those who have lived by petty exploitation of Negro ignorance and fear, does not shrink from the more hazardous task of defending Mose...
With attention concentrated on the fearful intrigue steadily tightening around Mose, readers may be slow in recognizing that Author Rylee has unobtrusively built him up as a strong character, a human being extraordinary in his selflessness, his patience and simple eloquence, his deep inner contentment with the seasonal simplicities of farm life. "De Lord done been trampled on befo. . ." he sermonizes. "An hit ain't never ruffle de Lord none. Dey done nail de Lord up an poke a knife in he side and done laid de crown o' thawns on he haid, an hit didn...