Word: rastus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon to meet the issues of an entirely different order of life." Hence the rise of corporation lawyers, the warping of the 14th Amendment's "due process" clause from its intended protection of Negroes to its actual protection of corporations. "It had accomplished nothing for its expected beneficiaries, Rastus and Dinah, but might hold concealed blessings for transcontinental railroads and Standard Oil companies." Hence the growth in importance of the Supreme Court...
Singer Lily Pons went to see the monkeys kept by Menton's famed Rejuvenating Dr. Serge Voronoff, got too close to a cage, was soundly bussed by an ape named Rastus...
...thunderstorm, suffer a breakdown (which they attempt to mend with a gimlet and a hatchet), and finally drive on into a sentimental rainbow. More rough & tumble were Beale's ideas of Mrs. Casey's goat which butted a respectable Philadelphian into a watering trough or Uncle Rastus and His Mule. Literature particularly attracted the Professor. He made illustrations for such things as Evangeline, Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, Elegy in a Country Churchyard (32 pictures in this set), Othello, The Wreck of the Hesperus. One of his favorites was Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight! Long before Minnie...