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...only at its end papers, with a sigh. Though dealing with the fairly thoroughly canvassed tragic situation, or lack of situation, of half-breed Negroes in the South, the book tells its story with a ruthless, rare good humor. It is a highly un-saccharine good humor which will remind readers more of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn than of the Peterkin school of writers on Negro themes. And Author Flannagan, without the usual studied accoutrements of a simple style, can write simple conversational English to a turn...
...defense plea to save his client from the looming gallows. "I propose to prove," he told the jury, "that this girl, many times the boy's mental and emotional superior, made him drink a quantity of liquor before he would take her to the dance. I propose to remind this court what is known to everyone here-that tulapai to an Apache is murder...
Over the entry of Kirkland House is the coat-of-arms of the Kirkland family. The conspicuous feature of it are the three large stars, which remind the beholder of the more plebian but more renowned ensignia of another illustrious family. Some irreverend spirits have even gone so far as to refer to "Hennes essey House". This jaunty tale symbolizes the democratic spirit of Kirkland, which has less of the boarding school and social elements represented than the other Houses. It has been considered by many as a social desert and a stigma has been attached to its name. This...
...Milwaukee to be their new president. To Dr. Potter, as the convention closed, went a letter from President Hoover, congratulating "the department of superintendents . . . and the nation upon the inspiration in the high service of education that flows out to the country from its deliberations. These serve again to remind our people that, however the national economy may vary or whatever fiscal adjustments may need to be made, the very first obligation upon the national resources is the undiminished financial support of the public schools. We cannot afford to lose any ground in education. That is neither economy nor good...
...reader of TIME it gives one a strange feeling, a cross between pity and shame, on reading your answer to John Thomas in which one can readily read between the lines your displeasure although camouflaged as news May we, with due respect for your opportunity to' dispense facts, remind you that the greatest pleasures of life are not derived from an ironic discrediting of the good intentions of others, but rather from encouraging their endeavors...