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...born Southern lady, only woman lawyer in Clarksville, Miss., accepts a routine case growing out of a shyster lawyer's theft of a Negro client's cow, is quickly involved in a complex and dangerous intrigue, uncovers a plot to hang an innocent and friendless Negro. Honest, stubborn, self-respecting, acutely conscious of her social and moral responsibilities, Mary has already made enemies by her interference with those who have lived by petty exploitation of Negro ignorance and fear, does not shrink from the more hazardous task of defending Mose Southwick against his influential persecutors...
...feature game of the season, Winthrop and Brooks House, both heretofore undefeated, met in a stubborn battle which Winthrop won by the margin of a single run. This win places Winthrop in sole possession of top place in the league and gains the championship for the House...
...evidence that the Chambermen had been meanly partisan and did not represent the opinion of businessmen he read with slow emphasis from a clipping in which Francis E. Powell, head of the American Chamber of Commerce in London, expressed astonishment that U. S. business should make a "stubborn fight" on the New Deal...
...mother, friend and lover. The book ends with the preliminary divorce proceedings that will set Hervey and Nicholas free to marry. Long before this she knows that Nicholas can never make her happy; life has taught her to be a realist, and he is still a dreamer. But her stubborn woman's honesty will not let her deny her tragic love...
Josef Stalin may allow Russians to bathe stark naked on the Nevsky banks, exile stubborn Kulaks to the wastes of Siberia, or teach clumsy railroad workers an object lesson in front of a firing-squad, but his cloven hoof appears in silk stocking with distressing frequency...