Word: outcaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family. In turn, the Negroes give Norwood that queerly affectionate and somewhat frightened obedience expected and received by Southern whites. Without nosing it as a universal occurrence, Playwright Hughes reveals one dramatic consequence of this interracial situation in its full frightfulness. Accepted neither by blacks nor whites, an outcast of both races, Robert, mulatto son of Cora and Norwood runs wild in desperation, chokes his father to death, shoots himself in his mother's bedroom before the lynchers can reach...
Busy at Leipzig last week drafting the new German Penal Code called for by Adolf Hitler, Judiciary Commissar Hans Frank said it will "contain a new category of punishment, 'Civic Death,' reducing the status of the condemned to that of a permanent outcast." As an afterthought, Dr. Frank recalled that the ancient Huns had a somewhat similar procedure of driving an offender out of the tribe to starve or be eaten by wild beasts. "We are in fact reviving," he observed, "an old German custom...
...pains any Senator to be denied patronage, to have the Internal Revenue Bureau prosecute his aids for income tax evasion, to be treated as an outcast by his own party. Last week Huey Long could stand it no longer. Being pugnacious, at least in words, he started a campaign of reprisal against the Administration. He would show Franklin Roosevelt Huey Long's intrinsic worth-his nuisance value...
Instead it has been necessary for Eng land's King George V to extend his protection to Outcast Helen. By the King-Emperor's command she was invited to Marina's wedding and King Carol was ostentatiously snubbed (TIME...
Issues, of course, were local but the general issue of National Government (i. e. rule by Conservatives under an outcast Laborite Prime Minister) was well to the fore. From the standpoint of the Briton in the street there is something tricky about the "National Government." He had a chance last week to approve or reject the able trick that has given Great Britain a balanced budget, revived her industry by tariffs and made bankers and blue bloods feel safe. What would be the verdict...