Word: kamelia
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...Klux Klan--Awaits Moment to strike." "We may be inactive, but our influence is felt," were the words of the leader of the two-year-old Harvard branch. The undergraduate began to watch for flery crosses and was not reassured when the Klan tried to form a branch--Kamelia--at Radcliffe. The evil forces quietly vanished and the college calmly unveiled a memorial plaque to Theodore Roosevelt...
Died. William Joseph Simmons, 75, indefatigable founder of fraternal orders (Knights of the Kamelia, The White Band), ex-preacher and traveling salesman, fanatical first Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, which he helped revive in 1915 and goaded on to a monstrous 4,000,000 membership before he was bought out (for $90,000) in 1923 by Klansman Hiram Davis ; after long illness ; in Atlanta. Wizard Simmons could soft-talk away blood-&-thunder at the drop of a subpoena. He once testified at a Congressional investigation: "Our mask and robe, I say before God, are as innocent...
...said the deputies had fired a tear-gas bomb through his parlor window, shot down his wife when she rushed out with hands raised. Then, he admitted, he had gone back to get his old Army revolver, but it had jammed when he tried to fire it. His daughter Kamelia had fired some shots later, but she was only trying to kill herself as she knelt by her dying mother...
...chosen words the editor's reaction to N. R. A. and all that; the second says a few words on the Slav Utopia (Mencken's phrase for Red Russia) which should be prescribed reading to every member of the Harvard Socialist-Liberal-Club-Students'-League Knights-of-the-White-Kamelia organization. Further than this there is not hide nor hair of H. L. to be found, and this commentator believes that the man should be told by his best friend, G. J. Nathan perhaps, that it is time for Mr. Mencken to come to the aid of his country, even...
...whole Kukluxklan Kamelia Komedy is so foolish that one no longer wishes to protest against it because it is anti-Negro, anti-Jew, anti-Catholic, but rather because it makes the people of all the South appear idiotic when they continue to accept seriously Klonvocations and Klonciliums, and tolerate the fantastic ravings of men who are fattening on the money of deluded simpletons...