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...resignation from the Cabinet. It was declined. In March his engagement was announced. On May 7, 1914 the Cabinet tendered him a luncheon at which he declared that his feelings were like those of the mountaineer who went out into the moonlight and falling on his knees, cried: "Oh, Lawd, I ain't got nuthin' again' nobody, no mo'." The Senate sent a diamond bracelet and the House a silver service as wedding presents and that evening before 100 guests in the Blue Room of the White House William Gibbs McAdoo was married to Eleanor Randolph...
...truth! ''Then sing, brethren and sisters." Praise de Lawd. . . . Yeah...
Amen. . . . Yassuh. . . . Praise de Lawd...
Whoooooo bellowed the steamboat whistles. "Hey, look!" yelled the crowd. "Looka yonder! Hyeh they come!" The big barge nosed across the yellow water toward the brown river bank at the edge of Jefferson Davis Park. "Great Lawd, look at the Niggers on those cotton bales." guffawed the crowd. "Naked as jay-birds. What they supposed to be, Egyptian slaves or something? It says here in the program: 'Egyptian Pageant, Memphis on the Nile in the Time of Menes, First Prince of Memphis...
...advice to the college actor going on the professional stage is the same as I would give to any actor," says Richard B. Harrison, "de Lawd" of "The Green Pastures." "Play your part well. You have a debt to your audience. If you wish of permanent popularity, give the best in you. Rehearse your lines continually and you will never get state. Every show should be a perfect show and every night should be a first night. The Bachelor of Arts will find his degree no hindrance. Merit is the prime basis of ultimate success in the theatre...