Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mobile seethed in righteous wrath. In homes, in clubs, on streets, audible threats of tar-barrels, feathers, the noose rose out of mutterings and fist-shakings. One evening last week warnings from county officials came to Mr. Darrow, plain-clothes men grouped themselves about his door; on the next morning he fled on the noon train to Chattanooga throwing a parting word of denial of what the Klan said he said, planned to return North...
...years to be registered and licensed. The Mediterranean lands are declared the chief source of "white slaves," and Latin America is the principal consumer region. During the reading of the Committee's report-signed by its U. S. Chairman, William F. Snow-a member of the French delegation rose to protest the Committee's translation of tenancière into English as "madame." Tenancière, he protested, meant a woman who kept disorderly premises; and madame is the ordinary title of married Frenchwomen. Tiems! Did the Committee propose to slander at one stroke all the honest wives...
Last week Canadians and Labradorians jabbered so widely and intensively over the new settlement that one Rabbi Isaac de la Penha of Montreal rose up and told the press that a quarter of Labrador belongs to him by an ancient royal grant which he cited glibly but was unable to produce...
...Latin vespers' chant rose majestic and sonorous. Notre Dame seemed every moment less a church of man, and more the infinite, spacious House of God. Then Paul Claudel was suddenly upon his knees. . . . "Alors se produisit," he has said, "I'événement qui domine tout ana vie. This, of all my life, was the dominant moment. My heart was touched. Je crus-I believed! . . . Blinding, ineffable, had come the revelation. I had realized the heart-rending innocence, the eternal childhood...
...Among two million persons aged 15 to 19 the suicide rate for white boys was 6.7 per 100,000 in 1911, 6.16 in 1912. In 1913 it reached a maximum of 7.3 per 100,000. In 1923 it dropped to a minimum of 1.7. In 1925 and 1926 it rose to 3.9 per 100,000. Until 1921, more girls than boys aged 15 to 19 killed themselves. Lately the boy's rate has been the higher...