Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the Civil War, several Negroes were elected from Southern States to take seats in the House of Representatives. Soon those Negroes nominated youths of their own race for the U. S. service academies at Annapolis and West Point. In 1873 two young Negroes passed the Annapolis entrance examinations and were admitted. Within the year both resigned, because of "deficiencies in their studies." The next year, another Negro went to study at the Naval Academy. Before his plebe (first) term was out he was dismissed, for using "profane and vile" language to a classmate...
Major Peake took No. 10,520 to the prison pharmacy-sunny outlook, curtained windows. He introduced him as "Mister" Sinclair to Dr. Morris Hyman, the prison physician, and to Miss Mary Kathleen Wright, the prison nurse. Miss Wright, 24, blonde, from Eastport, Me., was soon described as "pretty," "charming," "petite," etc., etc., etc., in newspapers throughout the land. "These are your bosses," said Jailer Peake. No. 10,520 nodded cheerfully...
...season. Stalled by the formality of the occasion, the cars were surrounded by a dense, jostling mass of working girls, tired shoppers and messenger boys, who scrambled like children at the Zoo for a peek at High Society before going home to tea. The great state show soon to take place inside the palace was not for them. This was their -show, and for three hours as the cars waited in line they made the most of it with pointed umbrellas and still more pointed comments...
...said Politzerprasident Carl Zoergiebel in defense of his super-efficient policemen, "that bystanders were injured, but we must consider the viewpoint of the decent laborers who were not in the least connected with the uprising, and had the right to demand that the fire of insurrection be quenched as soon as possible." Another echo of Berlin's Bloody May Day was the reappearance in the news of Grigori Evseevich Zinoviev, famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," onetime Director of the Third International, imputed author of the defamed Zinoviev letters (later proved forgeries) which caused the downfall of Ramsay MacDonald...
...worked his way on a freight train to Phillips-Andover Academy. There he convinced the faculty of his right to enter, slept on a self-made straw mattress. He was soon leading his classes, playing in school sports, tutoring faculty children, organizing religious meetings, preaching in the pulpits of nearby towns...