Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...screamed in prayer. It was Herbert ("Rip") Bell, 30-year-old Negro, charged with beating to death one Rufus Joiner, white farmer. The Negro stopped praying as they ferried him and the sheriff across the broad Cumberland river. On the far bank a throng of hillbillies waited, still and serious. Leaving Sheriff Ellis, they all went into the back country, about ten miles. Next day Dover was quiet and Sheriff Ellis went into the back country to investigate. It shocked him to see flies around the bullet holes in a black, dangling Thing...
...Buchman is smooth, with a long intelligent nose, a hungry eye. He is to be seen from time to time traveling first class on the principal transatlantic liners. When at New Haven, or Princeton, or Cambridge, Mass., or Cambridge, Eng., he is persona grata among a group of serious-minded young men distinguished by their piety and their wealth. Like young Buchmanites, Mr. Buchman is a bachelor, though past 40. In what does his influence over them reside...
...reopening of Memorial or the establishment of some similar dining-hall. To any graduate who used to eat at Memorial Hall at a club table with his friends, the passing of this college institution has seemed most lamentable. From a dietetic standpoint, its lapse from popularity has been a serious mistake...
...said the managing editor to me the other day, "I'm not strong for humor ordinarily--I'm a serious-minded feller--but your story last Saturday was the funniest ever...
...will be without the services of Miller, fast heavyweight half-back, in Saturday's tilt with William and Mary. The big speedster hurt his leg in the third period of the Holy Cross game, while running back the kick-off after the first purple touchdown. The injury is not serious, but the coaches want to be sure that Miller will be in good condition for the Dartmouth battle a week from Saturday, and are planning to give the hurt leg plenty of chance to heal, without running the danger of a new injury...