Word: slave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were flooded with liquor from the wet states, and the federal laws were flouted very much more than the present law. My own judgment is that the present law should be enforced and should continue until the saloon idea has become as thoroughly discredited in this country as the slave-block. Meanwhile, the states should pass concurrent legislation as provided for in the Eighteenth Amendment, and then when the American people are thoroughly convinced that laws will be enforced and that our Constitution will be respected and that open deflance of the Constitution is a form of treason, it will...
Joseph. The Biblical Joseph was an earnest and moral slave who repulsed the advances of the wife of his master Potiphar, because he was grateful for Potiphar's kindness and wanted no illicit fun in the first place. Joseph's nobility suffers in the theatrical version of him conceived by Playwright Bertram Bloch and performed by George Jessel. They make it quite clear that he balked at adultery not because of lofty scruples, but because he was afraid Neris would ultimately fling him to the crocodiles, her customary farewell to outworn lovers. Actor Jessel, swarthy, expressive young Hebrew...
...heart. Occasionally one of the young men is allowed to stay for the night. Many of them are in love with her; none dreams of marrying her, for in spite of her superior education and her charm, her social position is not much better than that of a slave...
...Slave...
...Griffin, Ga., Harvey Couch returned to his family home, found John Rogers. 91, ex-slave of the Couch family, living on the old plantation. Rogers in 1870 had loaned his bankrupt owners $4 which was repaid him with...