Word: lynn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rape was the charge against Curley Wright, Negro, when he faced a judge and jury in circuit court at Centerville, Tenn., last week. He was glad when 100 National Guardsmen arrived to cow a vengeful mob that threatened to lynch him. Complainant against him was Mrs. Zora Johnson Lynn, 55, weak-minded widow. Her account of the attack was lurid. Her two granddaughters, posing as eyewitnesses, embellished the tale by telling how Wright had flourished pistols, one in each hand...
Defense attorneys soon proved that the two younger women were lying, that they were out gadding with men the night of the alleged crime. Mrs. Lynn admitted she had perjured herself...
...Duluth, Elizabeth, Lowell, Lynn, New Haven, Springfield, Mass., Tacoma, Yonkers, Youngstown...
...June 1, 21st annual Chicago North Shore Festival. Orchestral favorites, a few novelties, the Bach B minor Mass comprise the programs, interpreted by artists including Cyrena van Gordon, Efrem Zimbalist. Josef Hofmann, Edith Mason, Alice Mock. Other May festivals are at Emporia, Kan., Bangor, Me., Springfield and Lynn, Mass., Keene, N. H., Newark, N. J. June opens the summer opera season at St. Louis-light opera favorites such as The Chocolate Soldier, The Bohemian Girl. On June 22 begins the famed summer season at rustic Ravinia Park, near Chicago, with Impresario Louis Eckstein giving a classical repertoire with Metropolitan Opera...
...into the human soul (TIME, Feb. 13, 1928). STREET SCENE-A slice of tenement life, deftly cut (TIME, Jan. 21). JOURNEY'S END-Ten men in a World War dugout (TIME, April 1). LIGHT HOLIDAY-The brightest dialog of the season (TIME, Dec. 10). CAPRICE-Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in a merry importation (TIME, Jan. 14). KIBITZER-The preposterous adventures of a Jewish know-it-all in the stock market (TIME, March 4). MUSICAL Best light lines, legs and lyrics: Hold Everything, Whoopee, Follow Thru...