Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full term of 1875-81. When last a Negro's voice was heard in Congress it was pleading chiefly to make lynching a Federal offence. Should Chicago's De Priest reach the House, doubtless he will take up this plea where North Carolina's White left off, although the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last week announced that a 39-year record had been broken-no lynchings reported anywhere in the U. S. for four months...
...known about six months, to dinner, and later to stroll & sit with her in the park. The Court looked again upon the young man, pondered, proceeded to acquit Sir Leo & Miss Savage, and lastly assessed costs of ?10 ($49) against the two too officious bobbies. As Miss Savage left the court the young man swept her into his arms and hugged...
...madman was Charles Sims, R. A., who once painted King George with spindle legs, who became a lunatic, who committed suicide by jumping in the Tweed river, who left a note asking the Academy to show the last half dozen canvases he had covered (TIME, April 30). Reluctant, the Hanging Committee obeyed. The pictures were silly and terrible; their names had a dark and foolish clamor-My Pain Sheltering Beneath Your Hand, Here Am I. Passing them at last, to look at Sir William Orpen's bitterly melodramatic The Black Cap, or the clever work of 14-year...
...about the same time in the afternoon, the three Cornell crews, here for Saturday's regatta with Harvard and Tech, left the Weld Boathouse and made a brief excursion down to the Basin to become accustomed to the cross-chop that usually disturbs the Charles course...
...University golf team of six men left Cambridge yesterday for Rye, N. Y., to take part in three matches at the Apawamis Golf Club there today and tomorrow...