Word: races
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anent the regrettable misadventure of His Excellency Mahmoud Samy Pasha, Egyptian Minister to the U. S., at the Shenandoah Blossom Festival (TIME, May 14), without wishing to enter into the grammatical status of that "dark-complected" gentleman, may I not suggest that perhaps the "stupid race-blindness" of which you speak might have been displayed not by Mrs. Reynolds but by those warm persuaders of the Pasha who failed to realize that the Negro strain is as evident when promulgated through a line of princes and pashas as when through the humblest Senegambian dragged unwillingly into slavery, and that, unfortunately...
...restaurant of the estimable Lin Hing, at No. 2, the Bowery, Manhattan, there assembled last week 15 notable Chinamen who proceeded to found the Chinese Aero League of America. President of the League Dr. Tien Lee Huang announced for next August a 10,000-mile air race from Dallas, Texas, to China, for a purse of $50,000 offered by Col. W. E. Easterwood of Dallas, Texas. He declared that 13 planes are already entered, including his own giant all-metal, trimotored Spirit of Canton. The League was then addressed by Philosopher-Lecturer Dr. Huang ("the Chinese Count Hermann Keyserling...
...first two University eights rowed on the upper Charles River yesterday afternoon for the last time before they leave for Red Top and the Yale Race which is scheduled for June...
...unable to row owing to a slight injury, was replaced in the first boat by Geoffrey Platt '27, captain of last year's eight. J. de W. Hubbard '29 was still in the bow of the first shell where he has been rowing since the Navy-Pennsylvania race...
...Surely these phenomena portend a reversal of the experience of history. Even Plato commented with bitterness on the fact that the winner of the foot race in the Olympic Games was better known in Greece than himself. And yet today we hear murmurs because "H" men exploit their position in order to sell insurance, real estate, bonds, and athletic supplies, but what are they to do? It may be reasonable to exclude them from the society of educated men, because listening to a monologue on the stockmarket is pretty painful punishment: but to criticise them for turning an honest dollar...