Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...those five thousand white men did not administer death according to the law. They seized the negro from a willing sheriff's posse, which was sworn by all honor to uphold the law. They hold him awaiting the final torture, while excursion trains ran from the city, while business houses shut down as for a holiday, while pleasure-seekers came by motor from the whole country-side to witness this festival. This festival of debauchery...
...following state officers will be elected: governor, lieutenant governor, secretary, auditor, attorney-general, Councillor, senator, three representatives in general court, country-commissioner, country-treasurer, and sheriff...
...staff who come out from Boston escorted by a body of citizen cavalry called the Lancers. Then a procession is formed and all march to Sanders Theatre where as many as possible crowd in. The meeting is called to order according to the ancient custom by the Sheriff of Middlesex County, who pounds on the floor with the scabbord of his sword and shouts, "Oyez, Oyez, Oyez"--the ancient form for calling a court to order. Then after the prayer the University Marshal calls on four or five candidates for degrees for their "parts." After a short intermission the degrees...
Despite its unevenness, the play is original and diverting, and it seems that with a little rewriting it should prove a "popular success." The second act in which MacFarland is captured by the daughter of the western sheriff,in turn captures a genuine desperado, then is put to bed with him while the young lady sits watching with a rifle in her hands, is farce of the best sort...
...Craig as George MacFarland, Miss Mary Young as Dolly Kamman, the sheriff's daughter,and Mr. Walter Walker as the sheriff have parts nicely fitted to their abilities. The play is adequately staged...