Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women of Catfish Row lull their babies, keen over their dead. The men have their fishing, their crap games Saturday nights. Both cringe before the white folks' laws, the ill-omened buzzards, the lashing hurricane which provides the play's great climax. There are such numbers as A Woman is a Sometime Thing, Bess, You is My Woman Now, A Redheaded Woman Makes a Choo-Choo-Jump its Tracks, It Ain't Necessarily...
...well-fed farmer family lightens the after-dinner lull by laughing at the horrible trained antics of a half-witted Negro...
...lull between luncheon and cocktails, Henri Charpentier, famed chef who says he invented Crepes Suzette, was musing in the spotless kitchens of his Rockefeller Center Cafe when a New York City marshal and six deputies scuffled through his door. With no respect at all for Henri or his little French pancakes, they shooed out his patrons, scattered his clamoring staff of 77, packed up his food and drink, evicted Henri himself in apron and chef...
...cried, "Come out!" For answer they got a spit of machine-gun fire. There followed an ear-splitting six hours which Oklawahans will long remember. "It was like war," one of them gasped afterwards. Furious firing from both sides for 15 minutes or so would be followed by a lull, then a fresh outburst. About 11 o'clock in the morning, when the house had been silent longer than usual, a Negro cook was sent in. He returned to say, "They's all dead." The Federal men, unscratched after firing 1,500 rounds of machine-gun bullets, found...
Soon after the ransom money began to appear, New York newspapers agreed to lull the criminal's fears by withholding the news (see p. 46). With growing confidence, the criminal increased the rate of circulation. It was evident that he was active in the Bronx and Yorkville sections of New York. A police map showed each spot where ransom money turned up. The man was spending most of his money never in the same place twice, but always within a well-defined perimeter so that by taking cross-bearings, police had a reasonably good idea that he was living...