Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only once did the Lexington speech approximate the tenor of the Harlem address. That was when Congressman De Priest cried: "I occupy a serious position in America. The eyes of the civilized world are on Oscar De Priest. I have received more publicity than any other member of Congress. I will continue to fight for Negroes' rights in Congress and use bathrooms, barber shops and restaurants [at the Capitol] whether my colleagues like...
...doctor clamped his forceps to the gash, left the silver handles hanging. The victor's second caught a smear of blood on a calling card. Doctors and judges agreed the wound was serious enough to end the fight. With the doctor, the vanquished youth moved away, holding up the forceps to keep their weight from his gashed cheek...
Chunky, jovial, rich Juan de la Cierva, 33, inventor of the autogiro, debarked at Manhattan last week, met his serious, rich friend Harold F. Pitcairn, 32, and went down to the latter's city, Bryn Athyn, Pa., near Philadelphia. There the Spaniard, who lives in England most of the time, stripped off his coat and near the Swedenborgian Church which Mr. Pitcairn and his two brothers are building according to their late father's bequest, made the first autogiro flight...
...year, with about 70,000 cases turned over to Mrs. Willebrandt for prosecution. Government was getting convictions in about 75% of the cases tried. Instead of dwindling on the horizon as a political and moral issue, Prohibition had waxed larger with each passing year. The Wet question had become serious: "When does Prohibition...
Prof. Blake admitted that the psychological background of posture is so complex it may never be interpreted with scientific exactitude. But after several years of serious study he was ready to define and demonstrate a few outstanding posture-types...