Word: kued
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...custom of the Ku Klux Klan in recent years to make an annual splurge in Washington, D. C., so that mere laymen can gaze on the marching "brothers." This festival on Pennsylvania Avenue has come to be a barometer by which the relative annual potency of the K. K. K. may be judged. In the eyes of "Mr. Average Citizen," who thinks of crowds in terms of the several 100,000 Manhattanites who welcomed Gertrude Ederle and who fought to see the corpse of Rudolph Valentino, the K. K. K. performances of the last two years in Washington have been...
...saying ambiguously "a challenge issued by Jim is not the acceptance of a challenge by Miriam." True, able politicians like onetime Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey considered the campaign closed, refused to have anything more to do with the Fergusons, and Texans generally were sated with Ku Klux Klan claptrap. What difference? Jim made a speech...
Labor problems, capitalism, government had been subjects of his public utterances, which he continued when the Ku Klux Klan appeared and Prohibition became an acute issue. Of the Klan he said: ". . . magicians, astrologers, suggesters, healers and false prophets." Prohibition enlisted his support in a controversy with Wet President Butler of Columbia University...
...Eastern Shore. And not before-with many a "Macte!", "Eheu!", "Hercle!" and "Conclamatum est!" from the emancipated Higbie Chaffinch - a late and vinous banquet had been served in the latter's homestead with Moggs and Kendrick Glasby present, a banquet that incited a dastardly attack by the Ku Klux Klan ("a boy scout movement for children of 40 ... footpads and submorons, Sir!") which was repelled and its leader, the Rev. Pudley, captured in his white skirts. Nor before Ruth and young Kendrick, within a few hours of meeting, walked in a panic summer midnight to a mad prothalamium...
...tear-wringingly described how three of God's faithful were victimized by Conspirator Nebuchadnezzar and cast into a fiery furnace, but how God delivered them from their persecuting flames. (Pastor Norris speaks often of a Catholic conspiracy against him). Ominously one Lloyd P. Bloodworth, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, rumbled fervent amens from the front...