Word: straggler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with song in his heart. Paul Robeson, one-time (1918) all-American end, star basketball player, Phi Beta Kappa, of Rutgers College, more recently famed concert singer, enacts the role of the black boy. The white man's ways force him into the fight game. Swiftly the hungry straggler mounts to world championship, hangers-on, Fierce-Arrows, booze, kotowing, all the tinseled impedimenta. After two years of demoralizing opulence, double-crossed by his manager, disillusioned by the discovery that his idolized Irene is tinged with black blood like his own, he forsakes the devious paths of Harlem, seeks...
...fulfillment of our dreams approaches. With a new brilliance will the lights of Cambridge shine. Soon we shall have a modern hostelry in our studious midst. Dimes will click less frequently in the Subway. Gone will be the familiar sight of the early morning straggler in the Waldorf, for in the future Hotel Harvard will receive with open arms the seeker of bright lights and jazz. University guests will no longer seek the doubtful convenience of staying in Boston and commuting to the Square. Cambridge, antiquated, solitary provincial, fades into the Cambridge of the future, a Metropolis sufficient unto itself...