Word: excerpt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunger strike before one Central Asian king would let him depart. An entire chapter is devoted to Ibn Battuta, sprig of a Tangerian family of judges who in the 14th Century visited every Moslem colony in the world. The sedately written narrative is spiced with many a quaint excerpt from the original chronicles, maps and reproductions of old engravings, tid bits of curious information. Sir Percy manifests the complacent chauvinism of the typical hardy, wayfaring Briton, speaks of "British thoroughness," situations "saved by British coolness," believes the British owe their love of adventure to Viking blood from the Normans. Thus...
That is an excerpt from an essay entitled "Confessions of a Drone," written in 1906. It is included in Pamphlet No. 45 in the Pocket Library of Socialism. It is to be found on most public library shelves, hard by the writings of Karl Marx. The author was Joseph Medill Patterson, grandson of the late great Joseph Medill, founder of the Chicago Tribune. Joseph Patterson was then 27 years old, five years out of Yale, four years married, doing nothing...
...Phillips, a radio tenor, declaimed Mrs. Shipman's verses, gesticulating passionately. Whirling papers, dusty mops, cans, cans, pots and pans brought on lugubrious germs which attacked a group of innocent children. A dozen trim sweepers saved the situation by singing the Clean City Committee's Marching Song. Excerpt...
...occasion, Negro Poet Langston Hughes (The Weary Blues, Fine Clothes to the Jew) wrote a "workers' song" entitled " One more 'S' in the U. S. A." Excerpt...
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