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Word: kamelia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brave & Bankrupt | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Whether he got $146,500 or $145,500 or $90,000 (as variously reported) Emperor William Joseph Simmons, founder of the present organization, last week severed all connections with the Ku Klux Klan and with the Knights Kamelia, Inc. Emperor Simmons, inventor of many famous titles, such as Kleagle, Kloncilium, Klonsel, is the genius who in recent years revived the Klan from its fast growing obscurity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Simmony? | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

William J. Simmons, Emperor of the K. K. K.: " In a speech to a Konvention of Kamelia (the women's Klan) I said that New York City, due to its foreign population, is the most un-American center in America, and that New England is settled by French Roman Catholics who continue to speak French and maintain parochial schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Apr. 28, 1923 | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

There is a courageous paper in the South. It is the Enquirer-Sun of Columbus, Ga. In spite of K. K. K.'s to right and left, in front and rear, it says: " The whole Kukluxklan Kamelia Komedy is so foolish that one no longer wishes to protest against it because it is anti-Negro, anti-Jew and 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bravo! | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

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