Word: raleighs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That story about Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh is certainly a chestnut. I heard it at least 20 years...
...swelling chorus of voices which have been prescribing methods for revival of the Democratic Party was added last week the soft Georgia drawl of Senator Richard Russell. Speaking at a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Raleigh, N.C., the South's favorite pre-convention candidate in 1952 spelled out the current thinking of Southern Democrats...
...beautiful evening in August 1582, Queen Elizabeth entered the ancient town of Coventry, and divesting herself of her clothing, mounted a snow-white stallion and rode through the principal streets of the city. On her way she met Sir Walter Raleigh, who, observing her naked condition, threw his cloak about her, crying, "Honi soit qui mat y pense!', which, being translated, means: 'Thy need is greater than mine!' The Queen graciously responded, 'Dieu et mon droit!', which translated means, 'My God, you are right!' This incident is called the Magna Charta...
...hours police combed the area, finally picked up a Negro hitchhiker named Silas Rogers, and got him to confess that he had stolen the car in Raleigh, N.C., shot the cop. The court would not allow Rogers' confession to be used at his trial; there was clear evidence he had confessed only after a brutal third degree. But when the two soldiers identified Rogers as the Negro who had picked them up in the stolen car, he was convicted, sentenced to death...
Powers of Darkness. In Raleigh, N.C., just before two married couples went on trial for drunkenness and assaulting a cop, a friend of theirs went through the courtroom sprinkling yellowish "conjure powder" around the judge's chair and along the jury box, later rejoiced over a hung jury...