Word: repelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this lies not in the radio, and certainly not in the "talkie". It may be fund in the amazing excess poundage of the operators themselves. With a Bayreuth baritone dangerously near the three hundred pound mark in possession of the lead role and with an unlimited heavyweight diva to repel his amorous dalliance, the best Wagnerian opera must appear either pompous and slow or considerably absurd. At present, the majority of opera singers take it for granted that their art places no restriction on their appetites. Eighteen Day Diets are to them a vague rite connected with the folk lore...
Pleased was Dr. Moton to state: "There were 27 instances in which officers of the law prevented lynchings ... 24 of them in Southern States. . . In three instances armed force was used to repel would-be lynchers. . . . Twenty Negro men and two Negro women were thus saved from death at the hands of mobs...