Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lawyer George Gordon Battle: "To allow a private individual, without any judicial investigation, to put another person to death is contrary to all our ideas of jurisprudence and is highly dangerous...
...Austin Scholarships in Architecture have been received by George Katsutoshi Nakashima 1 S.A., Ross Lloyd Snedaker 3 S. A., Russell Train Smith 3 S.A., and T. Gerald Kronick 2 S. A. Harold Douglass Hill 3 S.A. has been awarded a Joseph Evelith Scholarship, and Gordon Titus Rideout is the holder of a Frederick E. Parlin award...
Samuel Cabot, Jr., Saint Mark's School; A. E. Cleary, Boston Latin School; Sidney Cohen, Classical High School; S. L. Cohen, Boston Latin School; Gordon Crane, Williston Academy; S. E. Davenport, III, Westminster School; F. M. Dearborn, Choate School; R. H. Denison, Loomis Institute; William Dworetsky, Boston Latin School; L. K. Emerson, Exeter; J. N. Eustis, Loomis Institute; W. C. Everett, Exeter; H. L. Fain, Exeter; R. D. Fallon, Exeter; R. S. Fitzgerald, Springfield High School; Aleck freed, Boston Latin School; I. H. Friedberg, Boston Latin School; E. W. Fuller, Jr., Boston Latin School; Oliver Garceau, Newton Country Day School...
...singer met a novelist, pink-cheeked Carl Van Vechten. He now calls him "the Abraham Lincoln of Negro Art." He met and admired others: Muriel Draper partygoing in a window curtain; Colyumist Heywood Broun lying shirt-sleeved beside his bathtub of cocktails, to receive intelligentsia; Lady Oxford asking Gordon to Black Bottom after singing for royalty. He sang all over the U. S., heard deafening and perplexing applause. Now 36, he muses: "Ho! Ho! ... I wonder what I was born...
...Significance. Author Gordon's story is not typical, as would be the story of a black Southerner consciously striving Northward toward freedom. As a Westerner, blind at first to the burden of his own color, Author Gordon dreamed of the East where he would be a brown, pagan tycoon. He won the East and more as songster, not tycoon. Still pagan, he says: "There are only two things I worship in life, a dollar bill and a pretty girl...