Word: nones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the Byrd organization's enthusiastic segregationist backing, Lindsay Almond let out all stops. Negroes, he cried, were "threatening government by N.A.A.C.P. in Virginia by the cold steel of federal bayonets, and we will have none of it." Ted Dalton, urging a system of limited integration, never really had a chance. And the dispatch of federal troops to Little Rock ruined him completely. Lindsay Almond was elected Governor of Virginia by a vote of 326,921 to 188,628-and the Byrd organization, playing fast and loose with segregationist emotions, was more firmly entrenched in power than ever...
...poet, Robert William Service never sought the level of Percy Bysshe Shelley, would have been as out of place on Parnassus as Shelley in a Klondike saloon. The rhymes that made Service a millionaire w'ooed none of the nine Muses. They reek of male shenanigans and sweat, roar like a Yukon avalanche, teem with rude and lusty characters: Claw-Fingered Kitty, Chewed-Ear Jenkins. Muck-Luck Mag, Blasphemous Bill Mackie. Dangerous Dan McGrew. "Rhyming has my ruin been," Robert Service once wrote, falling unconsciously into the balladeer's inversion. "With less deftness I might have produced real...
...final irony" came when a warrant was sworn out that one of the cops was "the aggrieved victim of an indecent exposure. It seems that we are now prepared to burn down the house of constitutional safeguards in order to roast a few nudists. I will have none...
Horizon. Says Managing Editor William Harlan Hale, Yaleman, biographer of Horace Greeley, onetime (1934-35) FORTUNE writer: "There appears to be a greater and greater inclination on the part of the public to sample the fruits of civilization. Other magazines fulfill bits and pieces of this hunger, but none devotes itself entirely to the whole vast need." Catering to U.S. cultural hunger comes easily to Horizon. Its parent is the bustling American Heritage Publishing Co. (TIME, Feb. 17), which overhauled the little-known historical quarterly, American Heritage, in 1954. saw it soar as a bright new bimonthly to a circulation...
Whoopie ti yi yo, Git along, little dogies, It's your misfortune And none...