Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down Mobile way, darkies croon to the night on soft spring evenings, grin, tip hats, as they shuffle past white "gemmen," still their noble lords if not their masters. Fortnight ago, Clarence Darrow, keen-witted, sharp-tongued Northern lawyer, stopped in Mobile, Ala., made speeches to wide-mouthed black men attacking Negro lynchings. On street corners hot-blooded white men gathered, muttered curses on Mr. Darrow, "damned Yankee" agitator. At Negro schools, able Lawyer Darrow repeated his speeches to the "new Negro." Klan circulars said he said: "Resist your white masters. ... I see you pray, but to what good? . . . Your...
...Author. Lewis Mumford was born in Flushing, L. I., so late as 1895. He attended Manhattan universities, pursuing science and pedagogy. His contributions to a wide variety of publications culminated in an associate editorship on the Dial. Since 1920 he has edited the Sociological Review in Eng land. He acknowledges an "intellectual debt" to Professor Patrick Geddes of India and Edinburgh, whose work in synthetics (making science, especially biology and geography, serve society in town-planning, education, etc.) he began investigating and studying, by letter, in 1916. Already two Mumford books have wide fame: The Story of Utopias and Sticks...
...procurer for the ducal bed involve his own daughter. He avenges her suicide and atones, with racial intensity, on the execution platform.... The treatment of prodigious figures in a pageantric time is in the grand, kaleidoscopic manner of Dumas, overcast with the mysticism of Jewry. Imported after a wide success in Europe, the book has not been equaled this season as a foursquare, full-blooded, Jehovian chronicle...
Meanwhile the Bolsheviki were strengthened by the return of their exiled leaders from Sweden, Switzerland, the U. S. Their strategy was to give expression to a wide spread craving for peace and land. The German general staff so completely understood this that Bolshevik Lenin was hurried from Switzerland across Germany in a sealed railway car. He was injected as a social virus into Russia by Germany...
...anticipation of a caress. He carried Sheik to the wireless room, muttering. He arranged some wires, glared at the "murderer" and loosed the lightning of righteousness. It was Omnipotence to swing the white corpse by its tail and hurl it at the sky, a falling thing in the wide heavens, a pitching clot for the sharks...