Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes of hotel owners and real estate dealers, but in the eyes of the vast majority of people, the Negro was still a second-class citizen. Those whites who considered the Negro their social equal were a minute exception to the general rule. As a Southern Regional Council report recently pointed out: "The South certainly has no monopoly on prejudice and discrimination." But, added the report, this is no excuse for the South. It is no good for the South simply to say: "You are as guilty as we are; therefore leave us alone in our guilt...
...remainder of his band to only five, and Ypsilantis fled to Albania. But I had also captured Ypsilantis' girl friend Sophia, who was very pretty. Seeing in her eyes that she was still with Greece at heart, I proposed to let her escape to follow Ypsilantis and report to me what he did. She went to Albania and sent me a message that Ypsilantis was waiting for 500 soldiers trained in Bulkes, Yugoslavia. Now our intelligence, says Ypsilantis is operating in Vitsi...
Even War Minister George Stratos, who gets publicly furious at any report except "Victory on all fronts," was privately doubtful. Said he with a sigh: "I guess it will be somewhere else after Vitsi-maybe the Grammes again...
These technical obstacles alone should not determine the fate of the Red Book, however. Council funds at present are adequate to support the book, and the recent Freshman Affairs report shows how to case the personnel problem. University Hall does not exert overpowering pressure one way or another. (Den Leighton would like to see the Red Book stay, but he will not try to interfere in the Council's business.) Logically, therefore, the Council should consider the tastes of the Freshmen...
Judging by the new play at the Copley this week, Ruth Gordon, the actress, should get herself a new playwright. And, at the same time, Ruth Gordon, the playwright, should put away her copy of Arthur Wing Pinero or Henry Arthur Jones and accept the report that Belasco is dead. "The Leading Lady," the play involving the two Miss Gordons (both of whom are married to the play's director--which suggests a dilemma more interesting than the current play) is an unreal bit of pink fluff that might be found floating about in the mind of some stage-struck...