Word: top
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little after 9 o'clock. The boat moved up the river. A deckhand threw down his whiskey bottle and started for the galley; on the way he noticed a little fire that was burning brightly on the floor of a storeroom; the deckhand threw some charcoal on top of the flames and then went to look for the mate. By the time the mate saw the fire, it had crept farther; he stared in be wilderment and then spoke to the Captain through a tube. Suddenly every one on the General Slocum knew that the boat was on fire. Alarms...
...Garvey's hopes soon faded. Last week, to a chorus of "Amens" and "Ain't-that-the-truths," Marcus Garvey made his farewell |speech from the top deck of the S.S. Saramacca, sailing from New Orleans to Panama, whence Marcus Garvey was to be shunted along to Jamaica. "His Highness, the Potentate" was in excellent form and spirits. "I leave America fully as happy as when I came," he elucidated, "in that mv relationship with the Negro People was most pleasant and inspiring, and I shall work forever in their behalf...
...Thirdly, the Bolsheviki established for the first time in history a workers' government. They tried for a Communist Utopia and failed completely. I believe something much more important resulted,--the workers republic. In Russia today, as in no other country in the world, the workers are on top. The only citizens are laborers, the only wealth is work, and a new type of society has been organized that is going to possess the future. As the French Revolution brought political democracy, the Russian Revolution is bringing economic democracy. We owe to the Bolsheviki the creation of the first economic democracy...
...they adored her?the younger singers, the chorus, the stage hands, the musicians in the orchestra, the ushers. She brought glamour to the humdrum of rehearsals. Her escapades were their bread-and-butter talk. She always seemed to do the opportune thing at the opportune time, came out on top. She was the only prima donna ever to have her own permanent dressing room. Two of the older singers had been bickering for one for weeks. Gatti was obdurate?and then Farrar came in, casually. No one would mind, would they, if she took that dirty, airless room...
President Hurie looked out his office window. Clarksville, he thought, a quiet town . . . trees, lawns, Missouri Pacific depot, county court house . . . not like New York, very poor, every body . . . last spring's rains and floods, top soil washed away, cotton crop a failure, last year's cotton sold for only a few cents a pound. No money in Clarksville. I have $3,000 in the bank . . . savings of 15 years teaching . . . 1912, graduated Union Theological Seminary, preached in some New York churches. Perhaps, can raise the $115,000 there...