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...Meaty" Cordingley lost to Bob Bingham, 2-1 as "Hunker" Graves was winning from Joe Fall, 4-3. Amherst won the best ball in this foursome. "Pious" Pete Macgowan gave Harvard another point by beating Durkes, 3-1, and Don Peddie finished all even with George Baird. The best ball was also tied. Gerry Davis and Jack McCann were beaten, 3-2 and 5-3 respectively, and Amherst also took this best ball point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amherst Trips Linksmen, 6-3; Freshmen Beat Tech, 4 1/2-1 1/2 | 5/1/1940 | See Source »

...from resorting to the repressive methods of a more pious age, the guardians of Harvard's dietary welfare have now lent a courteous ear to student complaints. Although demurring to some of the conclusions of the Student Council's Food Report, they have promptly acted on one of its proposals; and an expert has been hired to investigate the alleged inefficiency in the Dining Halls. This is a conciliatory gesture which must be appreciated; but whether it is more than a gesture only the future can show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLASH IN THE FRYING-PAN | 4/20/1940 | See Source »

...education of Wilbert Lee O'Daniel began after he was elected Governor of Texas. Until November 8, 1938, he was a pious flour salesman and promoter with a baritone voice. He believed that all Governors, State Legislators, Congressmen were great & good men, whose chief concern was the public welfare. He also believed what he read in the papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: O'Daniel News | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...Manhattan pier, one day last week, 75 cantors chanted. Five hundred rabbis, 500 pious Jewish laymen craned at a stout, full-bearded man in a fur hat debarking from the Swedish liner Drottningholm. From his long wanderings in Eastern Europe's ghettos, great & good Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn at 60 had come to make his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rabbi from Warsaw | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Native Son tells the story of a "bad nigger," coal-black, 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, who lives with his pious mother, a mild sister and brother in a one-bedroom tenement apartment on Chicago's South Side. In a flawlessly keyed first scene Bigger smashes a rat with a skillet, frightening his sister into a faint. Sullen and sassy through breakfast, he begs the last quarter in the house, joins his poolroom pals to plan a delicatessen stickup. Instead, getting cold feet, he picks a fight with them. Bigger and his pals play a game of mimic called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bad Nigger | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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