Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diligent desk diplomats. A U.S. newsman once remarked that Cannon had the worried manner of a village postmaster who had mislaid the day's mail. Cannon kept insisting, in his almost inaudible voice, that the conference should be conducted on "technical" rather than political lines. The Communist majority rode roughshod over the contention...
Singer Jane Fromain was finally back on her feet, and looking in the 'pink (see cut). She sang without crutches-in a New Jersey nightclub-for the first time since the plane she rode crashed at Lisbon, Portugal, back...
Being well coached, he never caused an "incident"; he learned to touch his cap and be deferential to white people. He used the "for colored" entrances at stations, drank out of Jim Crow fountains, sat in Jim Crow parks and rode Jim Crow taxis, saw (and resented) many a town's Jim Crow honor rolls of war dead. In Georgia he found that even the Atlantic Ocean was Jim Crow, without "a single foot where a Negro can stick a toe in salt water...
...Casey Jones, relict of the famed engineer, sharp-eyed and spry at "over 80," rode up from Jackson, Tenn. to Chicago for a railroad fair, reminisced about Casey: "Laughing brown eyes that had the imp in them . . . took care of his engine like some people pamper a dog." On the fair: "Some doin's. Only wish Casey could be here. But I don't know what he'd think of these new diesels and the 'astra domes' and stuff...
Cheesecake & Horse Operas. She rode a bus to San Francisco, gave herself a new name-Carole Landis-and got a job as a hula dancer in a cheap nightclub. She began the kind of swift and brutal education a boxer gets in the ring. She sang with a dance band. When she had saved $100 she went to Hollywood to court the cold-eyed janizaries of the motion-picture business...