Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ready was the President to name any of his dinner guests to the Federal bench, but one judicial nomination he did make. He named William Henry Hastie, 32, to be Federal judge in the Virgin Islands. While there are or have been Negro municipal judges in Chicago, New York City and the District of Columbia, no Negro has ever before sat on the Federal bench. No mere political gesture to colored constituents was this appointment, however, for William Hastie, Knoxville born, is rated one of the ablest Negro lawyers in the U. S. He was graduated from Amherst magna...
...Spaniard things superficially religious are basically just Spanish. Thus last spring, during Holy week in Seville, a group of particularly resolute Communists, wearing Red arm bands with the hammer & sickle, with the holsters of pistols peeping from their pockets, escorted through the streets the life-size figure of the Virgin Mary belonging to their district. "We don't trust those Fascist swine!" explained one of these Reds. "They pretend to be good Catholics but we are sure they don't harm the Holy Mother of our part of Seville. Somebody fired at her last time...
...Budapest choristers' songs ranged from the latest works of Hungarian moderns to old folksongs about the Virgin, a farmer boy. a mourning dove. They sang them all in Hungarian, showing a meticulous concern for every phrase. Auditors marveled at the chorus's pitch and perfect time, the way it negotiated the most intricate part-singing without a slip...
Those who have long eyed the virgin territory of the reserved seat section, often wondered how many people successfully crash it. "Not many," said the usher. "After a while we learn to notice which reserved seats are filled and an experienced usher gets to know the set-up at a glance...
...wards, safe from the eyes and ears of their menfolk, they talk, as men never hear them, about clothes, nail polish, money ("a woman's best protection is a little money of her own"), sex ("I'm just a frozen asset," says the play's lone virgin), nursing babies ("ouch! he's got jaws like a dinosaur...