Word: children
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with her sister and brother-in-law, moved into the trim white house next to Alloway's town hall. Soon word went around that the newcomers were not pure white. Righteous citizens gathered in front of the house, yelled imprecations, threw stones wrapped in paper saying "Get out!" Children tagged after Mrs. Fleming jeering, "Nigger woman! Nigger woman...
...Chicago, Mrs. Rose Carfora sued for divorce, charging that two years ago her husband, Dr. Alphonse Carfora, brought his first, divorced wife back to the home, relegated Rose and her children to the cellar where they washed, cooked and did odd jobs for the doctor and his mistress...
...undersigned Christian women, protest use of those advertisements which show use of tobacco in any way by women and girls and children. These advertisements have been on display too long. No one can tell what harm has been done...
...children of today may grow up to witness the magnificent spectacle of a metropolis uprooted overnight with all its residents mad, dead or chemically diseased by next morning. This will be the next World War. How, when, why will it start...
Righteousness, peculiarly Nordic chastity, and much bloodletting characterized the dime novels. At their worst they exhibited a style grandiose, bizarre, ornate; at their best they were active with verbs aplenty. They gave Russian and European pre-War children the idea that the U. S. was a land whose dust was completely bitten by redskins. At Manhattan book-auctions certain dime novels now bring between...