Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are harrowing days of suspense while the two look for evidences to clear them. There are prison walls in Hollywood's best décor. Shadows of the gallows darken the screen, as the lovers say their rather affecting farewells and no negro atone crusher bursts out into "Deep River," as this reviewer feared...
...They kick her shins and bawl and pound her with their fists, but still she hustles along. See her broad back, her mighty arms and legs, and ample breasts that suckled those ungrateful brats. Her dress is torn, her hair is mussed, and sweat stands on her cheeks, "wrinkled deep in time". But there is a red in her lips, a sparkle in her eyes, and her breath is as sweet as the breath of an old mooly cow. She holds her latest baby under the crook of her arm, and hustles along.--Quoted by Dean Mendell in an address...
...last statement unfortunately does not prove true in many cases," he continued, "because colleges do not give a deep enough training in any one field to stimulate interest after college is through. Colleges now give every student a smattering of knowledge about nearly everything, but no deep knowledge of anything, with the result that ten years after graduation the erstwhile student has naturally forgotten the things which merely scratched his brain, but did not make a lasting impression. Education should be more concentrated and less diversified; more narrow and less broad. A complete knowledge in one subject is better than...
Perhaps because of his Pocahontas ancestry, Governor Murray has always had a deep and abiding interest and affection for Indians. Settling at Tishomingo, he became the tribal attorney for the Chickasaws. He studied their treaties, laws and customs, collected nearly a thousand rare books on Indian lore;-another manifestation of his innate scholarliness. Today he is an authority on the history and habits of the Oklahoma Indian. For a wife he picked Mary Alice Hearrell, half-white, half-indian. Her uncle was Governor Douglas H. Johnston, Chief of Chickasaws. Today Governor Murray still calls her "squaw" and her name...
Governor Murray is a bookish man. His library of some 5,000 volumes is a precious possession. His reading is deep, wide, mostly classical. Many a visitor leaves him with a sense of astonishment at his erudition, his ability to quote and date and cite. Constitutional government is his specialty. The late great Champ Clark, observing him in the House, called him one of the greatest constitutional experts and parliamentarians ever to sit in Congress...