Word: blake
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...suspect was a Negro named Arthur Collick. Two days later two civilian possemen spotted him emerging from a swamp. With him were two women. The posse caught the women, but Collick escaped, plunging back into the cypress growth. The prisoners were Lillian Blake, Collick's common-law wife, and her 14-year-old daughter Martha. The two were taken to the county jail at Snow Hill, locked...
...jailhouse and let them see that Hall had told the truth. That was what he did. Still the mob did not disperse. Someone suggested that they get the women out and question them. They rushed to a window and began to hacksaw the bars. Inside, Lillian Blake and her daughter began to pray...
Meanwhile the mob had congealed in Stockton's four corners, yelling at the Negro women, asking them "How would you like to have this [rope] around your neck?" Terrified Lillian Blake promised to lead them to her man's hiding place. Someone pointed out that the two women, both barefoot, could walk faster if they were shod. A committee crowded into a store to buy shoes...
...utmost type of heroism, which alone is worthy of the name, must be described, merely, as complete self-faithfulness: as integrity. On this level the life of James Joyce has its place, along with Blake's and Beethoven's, among the supreme examples. It is almost a Bible of what a great artist, an ultimately honest man, is, and is up against...
...ever hear of the following, to name a few of our great ones: Bode (education) ; Goddard (psychology) ; Osburn (entomology) ; McPherson, Evans, and Henderson (chemistry) ; Hayes (economics) ; French (engineering drawing) ; Leighton (philosophy) ; Hagerty and Stillman (sociology) ; Transeau (botany) ; Spencer (political science) ; Hatcher and Graves (English) ; Alpheus Smith and Blake (physics) ; Ketcham (phonetics) ; Hockett (history) ; Hudson (bacteriology) ; Boiling (classical languages) ? Don't believe us that they're great-consult Who's Who or some impartial educators who should know. We'll be glad to supply the names of others...