Word: kued
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to Cole, the era of the trial was "a period of frustration, uncertainty, and intolerance" marked by the re-emergence of the Ku Klux Klan. He quoted Bryan as saying that "it is more important to know "The Rock of Ages' than the age of rocks...
...luck clients, served briefly as police magistrate, entered the Senate in 1927. There he fought hard for New Deal, built a reputation as a relentless Senate investigator of lobbying and trusts, stood solidly on liberal side of the line despite fact that he had, at 37, been member of Ku Klux Klan. In the court Baptist Black was a novice in constitutional law, but studied incessantly, developed diamond-hard technical knowledge, has held the line for triple-distilled civil liberties and social interpretation of law. He often turns an angry purple at indefatigable Felix Frankfurter. Scholarly, quick-witted...
Mighty proud of Barbara Ellice Richardson, his brand-new, baby-doll bride, "a pretty girl with peculiar eyes, one brown and the other blue." the Rev. Alvin Horn, Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. trotted her down to Tuscaloosa to show off at a race-baiting get-together the boys had planned. But back in Talladega. Barbara Ellice's daddy sicked the sheriff on the honeymooners, and Barbara Ellice got clamped into custody. The reason: bouncing (5 ft. 8 in., 145 Ib.) Baby Doll is only 15. It was all news to the Reverend, a 45-year...
...Swanson, his baiting, inquisitorial manner was not only impertinent, but-worse -not pertinent. It is too late in the century to treat either Actress Swanson's merits as a performer or the Hollywood morals of her heyday as if they were burning issues. For all practical purposes, the Ku Klux Klan is just as dated, but Wallace produced its Imperial Wizard Eldon L. Edwards in a flurry of bedsheets and a flourish of portentous announcements. Edwards, a tongue-tied Atlanta paint sprayer, was a sitting duck for Wallace's speechifying, loaded questions. He managed to emit...
...loyal, sensitive family retainers, all Negroes are coarse, crazed, slovenly animals. In conveying the impression that people are the same now, Griffith's Reconstruction becomes an actuality in 1915. It is laughable, but a little frightening to recall that starting with the first World War, the Ku Klux Klan's ranks swelled to nearly four and a half million...