Word: notted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are 13 Atlantas in the U. S., but only one mattered last week.* Atlanta, Ga. was the place where Gone With the Wind opened (see p. 30); where Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh passed by and the Negroes said: "I seen 'em!"; where Banker Robert Strickland wept for...
In the beginning, in 1836, Atlanta was the spot of red clay where one Hardy Ivy had his cabin, and where an engineer named A. H. Brisbane chose to drive a stake. Because the stake marked the end of the new Western & Atlantic Railroad, the town-to-be was called...
For booming, trading, railroading Atlanta, the War Between the States was a cosmic incident but not the end of the world. Savannah and Decatur (doomed to be a mere suburb), Macon and Augusta might mourn the life that was gone; Atlanta had business to do: rebuilding, shipping to and from...
There was not money enough in the Carolinas for all the Negro folk, so Benjamin and Pearl Mason drifted north to Philadelphia. Ben washed cars in a garage. They had a baby girl, and things were all right until 1931. Then Ben lost his job, looked in vain for another...
Lawyer Alexander figured the project was an investment which would give the Masons 6% on their money. To Pearl it was a place where it wouldn't rain right in on Negroes huddled around a kitchen stove. They named it Frances Plaza, after their daughter. But Pearl was convinced...