Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wear a long cassock, and move about near the altar of St. Michael's Church, in Newark, N. J., quietly so that the people at mass would say to each other: "That's Jimmy Walsh. He's a swell altar boy." It would be nice also to touch the bright golden cross and to feel the close presence of the chalice...
...thing began when the pupils of Emerson High School returned to their classes and found the 24 Negroes enrolled in their midst. Emerson High School is in the "nice" residential section of Gary. It has never before had more than four or five Negro pupils. But during the summer, Gary's school districts were redefined. Because they lived where they did, the 24 Negroes were entitled by law to attend Emerson High School...
Next day the "nice" residential part of Gary was littered and scrawled with placards and signs: "WE WON'T GO BACK UNTIL EMERSON IS WHITE. . . . NO NIGGERS FOR EMERSON. . . . EMERSON IS A WHITE MAN'S SCHOOL...
Black Velvet. This title is descriptive of skin pigments in blackamoors, the play descriptive of events surrounding the liason of a nice white boy with a jaunty yellow girl. It intends to describe a changing era in the South. The central figure is a bewildered Southern gentleman with whiskers, who finds that the Negroes no longer obey him; that reverence and elegance play little part in modern industrial life. These various factors are knit into an uneven play which kills four people (three offstage) every evening. Arthur Byron,* usually urbane and neatly pressed, does well with the bewhiskered ancient...
COUNTERPOINT-Josephine Daskam Bacon-John Day ($2.50). Ten years ago the publication of Author Bacon's latest novel held vast interest for novel readers. Here was a lady whose characters were always engaging; no nastiness could be found in Author Bacon's bestsellers, just nice people doing nice things. Now, with the publication of Counterpoint after ten years, a few readers, remembering the old books, will be struck with the way a similar article produces a different reaction. Over this story of Will Stickney, of Naomi Lestrange (whom he marries, with whom he parts after vicissitudes, to whom...