Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several of the 48 states, the reform-urgers might have crusaded against even more lenient laws. In five southern states, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi and Virginia, twelve-year-old girls may take the marriage vow with their parents' consent; in New Hampshire 13 years' experience of this world is considered sufficient for wedlock...
...Said Amateur Sociologist Darrow: "The [Negro] breed is not running out. They are here and are here to stay. They are not going to Liberia. The white people don't want them to go. If the colored people should try to leave in any general exodus in any Southern state, they would probably be met by force to keep them where they are. Somebody has got to work. We Nordics are not going...
Through the Southern Alps of New Zealand, from Greymouth to Christchurch, sped a sleek private train, bearing H. R. H. the Duke of York who personally drove one of the two powerful electric engines which hauled his train swiftly through the five-mile-long mountain tunnel at Otira. Emerging from the tunnel, climbing down from the cab, H. R. H. very graciously received bouquets from three pairs of twins in dainty frocks...
...Markey-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Author Markey, the latest recruit to that swelling corps of young Manhattan newsgatherers who write disillusioned novels about wars, is not unaccomplished. His story has many an authentically stirring moment-a Yankee band challenging the Rebels with "Dixie" before the carnage at Fredericksburg; a sardonic Southern gallant shooting between his horse's ears on a midnight pursuit; the preparations for a lonely sabre duel; a bright-haired Richmond belle riding through magnolia-fragrant lanes and other pleasant spots. But the story itself is less satisfactory. The web of realism hangs loosely upon its romantic skeleton...
Manager A. F. Hanna '27 announced last night the schedule for the University lacrosse team. Eleven games will be played and a southern trip will be made to Philadelphia and Washington on which three games will be played...