Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grocer Feldman should know. Six times since January has his little store been entered and robbed by the same glib, ebony thief. The procedure has almost become a ritual. The Negro customarily surveys the store about closing hour (7:30 p. m.) to see that Grocer Feldman is alone, then immediately enters with his pistol. Usually nothing is said. Grocer Feldman smiles wanly and calmly gives his money to the black man. The first time he got $87. His succeeding visits netted him $49, $57, $54, $30. This year, Grocer Feldman was unable to take his family away...
...poster appeared in Manhattan advertising "colored engravings for the people, published by N. Currier, lithographer:"† He either draughted the designs himself or copied famous paintings, lithographed them in cheap, garish colors, sold them by thousands. During the Civil War, with Collaborator J. M. Ives, Nathaniel Currier made battle scenes, gave them to prize-winning essayists and orators in the grammar schools and as premiums in grocery stores to drum up patriotism. After the war the firm exploited and illustrated early frontier anecdotes, railroad sagas, Mississippi River steamboat races. They flooded the country with pictures of George Washington at home...
...Harvard outplayed us and deserved the victory." John M. Cates, Yale athletic director...
Father W. J. Kenealy, director of the Fulton Debating Society of Boston College, and Professor M. C. Fuller, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will act as judges, the third vote to be rendered by the audience. James V. Gibbon former coach of the Boston University debating team, will preside...
...most successful seasons. Victories over Worcester Polytechnic 3 to 0; Syracuse, 1 to 0; Bridgewater Normal, 7 to 2; Dartmouth, 2 to 0; Northeastern, 5 to 1; Brown, 4 to 0; and Yale, 2 to 1 were registered; the team was tied by the Navy and M. I. T., both 1 to 1; and it lost games to Amherst, 4 to 2; and to Pennsylvania...