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Ellison DuRant Smith, Senator from South Carolina, when asked last week to pick the 1928 Democratic nominee for President, said: "I should think he [the nominee 1 would be a dark horse, but not a dead horse. We have a morgue full of dead horses in our party...
...dancer by Degas, many an illuminating piece of fruit by Dr. Barnes's favorite of all painters, Paul Cezanne. Also, because of their influence upon French art and the presence of three of their race among Dr. Barnes's associates, primitive African sculptors are plentifully represented, by dark little wooden shapes which purists find obscene, but the adventurous adore...
...dark March afternoon in 1920 I sat in the Supreme Court of the United States . . . and I listened to the conclusion of a great argument. The case at the bar was as to the validity of the so-called 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
...which Author Hughes made venomous reply: To those who objected that Artist Reiss had pictured colored schoolteachers in regrettably dark tints he replied: "Should all teachers resemble the high-yellow ladies dominating the Washington school system?" Of the upper-crust Negroes as a class he observed: "Many of the so-called best Negroes are in a sort of nouveau riche class, so from the snobbishness of their positions they hold the false belief that if the stories of Fisher were only about better class people they would be better stories." As to these "best" Negroes' complaint that their lives...
Whenever a discussion arises on the subject of yellow journalism, the Boston Transcript is cited as a clear bright light shining in a dark journalistic world made up of pink extras, tabloids, red headlines, and misleading leads. The Transcript, also, is the classic example among newspapers of the good old New England conservatism, the "safe" newspaper equally to be trusted when declaring that there is no summer playground that can hold a candle to New England or when leading the churchman afield...