Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrat hosts prepared to rededicate themselves anew to fairness and justice, the bustling Southern city in which they are to meet is disgraced by an unspeakable act of savagery. There is no other way to describe the performance of the eight armed white men who yanked Robert Powell, 24-year-old Negro, from a hospital cot on which he lay with a bullet in his stomach, and hanged him from a bridge just outside the city...
Opposed to these loud Occidentals who fill the theatre with the smell of gunpowder are a batch of Orientals who rattle slates, employ green strangling cords, talk occasionally like old Southern gentlemen. Douglass R. Dumbrille, late of The Three Musketeers, is an inimitable O'Neill...
Shotput. Qualifiers--Rothert (Stanford), 50 ft. 3 in. (new record); Berlinger (Penn), 43 ft. 3 5-8 in.; Adelman (Georgetown), 48 ft. 8 in.; Krenz (Stanford), 48 ft. 5 in.; Schleimer, (Southern California), 47 ft. 11 in.; Smith (N.Y.U...
Javelin throw. Qualifiers--Kibby (Stanford), 204 ft. 7 in.; Churchill (California), 200 ft. 7 5-8 in.; Mortensen (Southern California, 198 ft. 9 in.; Sparling (Stanford), 196 ft. 10 3-4 in.; Myers (N.Y.U.); 195 ft. 8 in.; Curtice (California...
Broad jump. Qualifiers--Hill (Southern California), 23 ft. 7 1-2 in.; Herback (Pittsburgh), 23 ft. 7 1-2 in.; Herback (Pittsburgh), 23 ft. 5 1-8 in.; Boyle (Penn), 23 ft. 3 in.; Paul (Southern California), 23 ft. 2 1-2 in.; Dowell (Stanford) 23. ft. 2 in.; Benjamin (Syracuse...