Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cotton in search of sensation. But Sprigle had "crossed over" to see it through the Negro's eyes. Last week, in his own paper and 13 others (none of them south of what he had learned to call the "Smith & Wesson" line), Sprigle began telling what he saw "In the Land of Jim Crow." As an account of man's inhumanity to man-and man's capacity for enduring it-his series made Gentleman's Agreement seem gentlemanly indeed...
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...
...Openers. As editor, David Astor had more to recommend himself than the family name. No man to let his schooling interfere with his education, he took six months off between Eton and Oxford to roam Germany. In Heidelberg one day in 1931, he saw and was shocked by a prenatal symptom of the police state: lines of trucks packed with truncheon-bearing police, ready to charge if unionists clashed with rowdy Nazi paraders. His mother, Nancy Astor, and her Cliveden Set didn't want to be beastly to the Germans during the Munich era, but David Astor was already...
...Journal's staff members is a former linotype operator who always wanted to be a reporter. He saw in the Journal a chance to achieve his frustrated desire, turned in enough material (mostly gripes about the hospital) to fill three issues. The editorial board of fellow patients suggested that he try gathering some hospital news. He became the paper's religious reporter. To the satisfaction of the doctors, he has begun talking constructively about his own problems-the first step toward possible recovery...
...Style. No one saw any basic changes. The New Look was still the style. The only notable trend was an extravagant use of material (as much as 40 yards of cloth in one dress alone) which marked the collections of such New Look creators as Christian Dior...