Word: plights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most Of the most prominent Jews in the U. S., to the number of 1000 assembled at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, Philadelphia, to discuss the plight of their coreligionists in Eastern Europe. David A. Brown, Jewish organizer, proposed a plan for assisting Russian Jews to get back to the farm. He was supported by Julius Rosenwald and Louis Marshall. He was emotionally opposed by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise who urged concentration of Jewish efforts in Palestine. After a day's debate, Messrs. Brown, Marshall, Rosenwald, Wise, H. H. Lehman, Felix Warburg, Nathan Straus, retired, a committee, to a room...
...giving her main characters capitalized titles that were really poetic to multitudinous readers. The present volume retains this successful formula, telling the story of a Wounded Hero from the Great War who Married a Shamed Girl to give her Baby a Name, effacing himself very Nobly from her Tragic plight and keeping Bees until he Won Her Love. There are also Boy Scouts in the story...
...mourned Philip Randolph, Editor of The Messenger, Negro publication. He was writing of the lamentable plight of the Negro Pullman Porter ?poor black amorons who, galvanized by slave psychology, kneel to scrub the boots, rub off the trouser-cuffs of patrons and company officials, too timorous, too servile to better their plight...
...know all about golf listened last week while the Western Open Golf championship was being discussed in the soda fountains of their country clubs. Their eyes bulged with impatience, but they listened, for they wanted their own dicta to be final. When the others, at length, perceived their plight and fell silent, these informed ones wiped their mouths with the backs of their hands. Out of the fullness of their knowledge, in voices thickened by many draughts of Seltzer-water and orange juice, they spoke. "That's all right," they said, "but let me tell you something-listen, there...
Daniel pleaded with her to marry him "natheless." She bade him "adone." It seemed beside the point, she indicated, for her to marry anyone but the child's father. Although Daniel was too ashamed and she too proud to inform Ernley of her plight, the fellow learned it from her parents; married her like a gentleman...