Word: races
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quarter of a ton of Mayors rode out of New Orleans in an automobile one day last week. They were going to a horse race. At a rut in the road, the car lurched violently. Safe as mutton sat 300-lb. Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe of New Orleans. Startled into silence, 250-lb. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago shot aloft, collided with the top, came down with nose and lip cut and bleeding. Next day the Young Men's Republican Club of New Orleans adopted a resolution which would have salved worse wounds...
Stranger than the Afric prancings of the race of Hot & Tot* are the quaint folk ways of London playgoers wishful of economizing by sitting in the second balcony. Seats of such altitude are not reserved and can only be bought a short time before curtains rise. Therefore hardy balcony patrons gather betimes to form their amazing queues...
...hope is that we may identify the criminal before, as well as after the act," he said, "so that we may recognize the presence of dementia praicox before and not after little Willie has put the baby in the oven." He mentioned the possibilities of the relation between race and crime citing statistics of the negro, and foreign races in the United States. Racial psychology, according to Professor Hooton, is not yet definite, but with delicacy of technique increasing, it may be possible to determine exact relations between race, physical stigmats and abnormalities and crime...
...painter, known as "A. E.", in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter after his lecture and reading yesterday afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. "In every movement of national scope," he said, "the poets have been very active. I believe that in Ireland there will always be a race of heroic idealists. The poets in their imagination have connected earth imagination have connected earth with heaven...
...athletics. An ill educational dictum it it, however, that does not blow some sporting columnist ten inches of copy: The truly unfortunate part of the attack is not that it discovers in track a sport that has pushed football out of the cellar position in the academic pennant race, even though such discovery may prove a hardship to many article writers. Grave astonishment is the natural reaction to the unsportsmanlike conduct of the Carnegie Institute. The athlete, helpless under what has been called "the dumbing influence of athletics", is struck down with an adding machine and his body run over...