Word: flints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FIRE IN THE FLINT-Walter F. White-Knopf...
Walter F. White is a slight, light-haired, blue-eyed, soft-voiced young man, clever, wide-awake, efficient. He writes with skill and force. He has just published his first novel, The Fire in the Flint.* It is a story of the oppression of the Negro race in the South, a story of melodramatic intensity and some bitterness. Walter White knows whereof he writes. He is a Negro. He was graduated from Atlanta University in 1916 and has done graduate work in Economics and Sociology at the College of the City of New York. For a time...
...Lafayette (French)?Grantland Rice, famed sports writer; Prosper Champion, "sparkplug king" of Flint, Mich...
...requirements except for the summer camp. They will be awarded their commissions at the conclusion of the training period at Camp Devens on July 26. These men are: George Upham Baylies '25 of Boston: Raymond Thayer Bunker '24, of Wellesley Hills: Clark Cummings Curtis '25, of Roxbury: John Gardiner Flint '24, of Walpole, N. H.; Julien Donald Hills '24, of Clarion, la.; Allen Edward Norman '24, of Van Buren, Ark.; and Richard Leland Thompson '24, of Bellows Falls...
...Royal Academy of Arts opened its annual exhibition at the Burlington House, London. There are two sensations in this year's otherwise moderate display. The first is W. Russell Flint's sex picture, The Lemnians, a canvas displaying little more than coarse sensuality. (The Lemnians occupied Lemnos, an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. According to an old Greek legend, they murdered all the men on the island in revenge for desertion by their husbands. They were discovered by the Argonauts soon after...