Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just as the eagle is the King of all fowls, just as the lion is the King of all beasts, and just as the whale is the King of all the fishes of the seas, the white race is the crowning glory of the four races of black, yellow, red and white...
...hell with the Tribune!" Political tickets being what they are in Chicago, Mr. Madden might well have been defeated together with Crowe. His opponent was William L. Dawson, a Negro backed by other Negroes who were sick of the Thompsonian bombast and wanted a Representative of their own race. But Congress did not lose its distinguished member. Mr. Madden...
...That task he has now magnificently performed and he turns for recognition and support to a proverbially fickle electorate. Amid the electoral complexities inseparable from French politics the supporters of the Sacred Union Cabinet of M. Poincaré are merely heavy favorites in a type of a race which is too often run with freakish results...
...when she got to Khartum, on the banks of the upper Nile, it was no longer possible to conceal her passion to win the great race Woman v. Woman. For there British officials stopped her. They positively refused to let her fly over the enemy-infested wastes of the Sudan without an escort. She protested she must fly alone. Was not Lady Sophie flying that very day alone? Not so, said they; Lady Sophie, flying north over the Sudan, had also been forced to take an escort from the other side-a young lieutenant, snatched from the bride with whom...
Lady Sophie flew solo to Cairo. The race was hers. She had done the hard bit -vast veldt and jungle now lay in wait only for her rival. But, name of a dog, at the Cairo airdrome, where she stopped for supplies, officers padlocked her plane. It was not safe, they said, for a lady to cross the Mediterranean alone...