Word: slave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rascally Handback, Miltiades oversees the collection of his crops. Chance brings him the opportunity to settle old scores ? he ships 500 bales of Handback cotton to New Orleans, puts the proceeds in a valise in Gracie Vaiden's attic. Though Handback's mistress, she is an old Vaiden slave and will never tell. Miltiades goes about his business, calmly awaits the storm. The whole town knows of his peculation, accepts it philosophically : "Hit's nachel ? hit's nachel . . . evahthing what's bad is nachel...
...denounced large church weddings as "often vulgar as well as pagan." As head of the Corporation of Trinity Church, he administered the richest U. S. parish.* Died. Robert Scott Lovett, 71, board chairman of Union Pacific Railroad; after an operation; in Manhattan. A slow-spoken son of a slave owner, he entered railroading as a stump-puller when the Houston, East & West Texas pushed through his father's farm. Rising as a local attorney for Texas & Pacific, he was spotted by the late Tycoon Edward Henry Harriman, who quickly made him head of all his lines, appointed him administrator...
...life of the sixth largest State in Europe. It would deprive our country of its own direct communication with the countries of Europe. It would reduce our free and sovereign State to an impotent and pitiable land between Prussia and Russia. It would make Poland a cripple and a slave. We do not wish to be crippled and enslaved again...
...program for the Pops Concert at 8.30 o'clock tonight in Symphony Hall will be as follows: Coronation March, Meyerbeer; "Mignon" overture, Thomas; "Kammenoi Ostrow", Rubenstein; "Carmen" fantasia, Bizet; Finale, violin concerto, Mendelssohn; "Kol Nidrei", Bruch, (Cello solo, J. Langendoen); "Marche Slave", Tschaikowsky; "The Skaters" waltz, Waldteufel; Volga Boatmen's Song; "Strike up the Band", Gershwin...
...Eugen Onegin" Fantasia, Waltz from Serenade for Strings, and "Marche Slave," by Tchaikovsky, Prelude in G Minor by Rachmaninoff, Volga Bargemen's Song, Jacchia arrangement, and "Panaderos," Spanish Dance, by Glazounov...