Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night on soft spring evenings, grin, tip hats, as they shuffle past white "gemmen," still their noble lords if not their masters. Fortnight ago, Clarence Darrow, keen-witted, sharp-tongued Northern lawyer, stopped in Mobile, Ala., made speeches to wide-mouthed black men attacking Negro lynchings. On street corners hot-blooded white men gathered, muttered curses on Mr. Darrow, "damned Yankee" agitator. At Negro schools, able Lawyer Darrow repeated his speeches to the "new Negro." Klan circulars said he said: "Resist your white masters. ... I see you pray, but to what good? . . . Your God must be white considering...
...This hot-blood from Picardy was wrestling then in his soul, between the relentless, earthy doctrines of Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, and a certain stirring of religious mysticism within him which he had tried in vain to sully, down, and conquer by debauch. Perhaps in the young man's troubled mind Death and God seemed strangely opposed, for he had just come from the sick bed of a favorite grandfather, then dying of cancer of the stomach...
...kept working the boy's chest up and down, inflation, deflation. That was no longer a fellow human under their hot, aching hands. The ribs below their throbbing fingers became the wobbly staves of a poorly coopered barrel. Still they pushed, for 108 hours. Then they stopped. The barrel had caved...
...beginnings of the Orangeman's rise to fame as a Harvard character came one hot June afternoon after he had arrived in this country from Ireland. John, who at that time was earning his livelihood as an odd job man, was watching some of the students playing baseball on the Common. One of them asked him to bring them some water, and John fetched a pail of refreshment so pleasantly cooled with ice flavored with ginger ale and molasses, that the students took up a collection for him told him that if he were to buy fruit and bring...
...guests, for, as he says himself in the official prison magazine, Good Words: "This is an ideal place for men to refit morally and physically for the battle of life," and "no man is asked or expected to work beyond his capacity or to injure himself by overdoing things. . . . Hot supper is served to every newcomer, and then a shower bath and bed for a good night's rest in warmth and comfort. . . . With the morning comes a revelation in breakfasts and everyone goes to work with pick and shovel making roads" (TIME, Jan. 17). Guest Albert E. Sartain...