Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southerners are sure that, within the narrow limits they allow, they understand the Negro better than Northerners do. To Northerners the Negro is not a social problem but a minor, hardly noticeable industrial phenomenon. Nevertheless, even dyed-in-the-wool descendants of Lincoln's emancipators sometimes find it a socially embarrassing experience to encounter the emancipated Negro, whether in Harlem or between the covers of a book. Southerners would simply disregard the equalitarian gropings implicit in such novels as These Low Grounds and Their Eyes Were Watching God; Northerners might well find in them some indigestible food for thought...
Biding his time, vindictive Sap struck, and last week came within an ace of wrecking Paul van Zeeland's entire political career. By no means wealthy, Paul van Zeeland is nevertheless Europe's only banker-Premier. He served as secretary, director and later as vice governor of the Banque Nationale de Belgique for many years, but punctiliously resigned his post on assuming the Premiership...
With two men of this mettle, Mr. Sanderson relates in a highly readable book published this week,* he set off for a section of West Africa called Mamfe. He chose it because while it was unsanitary, and disease-ridden, it was nevertheless teeming with the beasts he wanted. Hundreds of specimens collected by the Sanderson expedition had never been bagged before. One of the first animals he encountered was a horrible, smelly little creature named the shrew. It looks like a rat with a long snout and eats anything from snakes to other shrews. Other of Zoologist Sanderson...
...onetime Associate Conductor Modeste Alloo of the Cincinnati Symphony. Last week two movements of the prize-winning quintet were played over an NBC program and the composer's name announced: Louis Gruenberg. Well known for his murky, savage Emperor Jones, his light, charming Jack & the Beanstalk, Composer Gruenberg, nevertheless, received his money by mail. This week the Lake Placid Club will be the scene of the first concert performance of his work, but Louis Gruenberg will not be there. The Club bars Jews not only as members but as guests and amplifies this prohibition in conventional, unmistakably English spelling...
...caddy taking a practice swing struck Mrs. Evansin the mouth with his club felled her loosened several teeth. After the start, Evans found his iron shots undependable and he was so tired from winning his morning match, against onetime Public Links Champion Frank Strafaci. that his timing went bad. Nevertheless, he was not beaten until the final green, where he looked up prematurely on a short approach shot then missed a 5-ft. putt. Next day in the semi-finals Champion Fischer's woods were crooked, his irons ragged his putter helpless, and he was beaten...