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Once past its rental-library title, which fits its subject like somebody else's glove, readers of New Author Flannagan's book will pull up only at its end papers, with a sigh. Though dealing with the fairly thoroughly canvassed tragic situation, or lack of situation, of half-breed Negroes in the South, the book tells its story with a ruthless, rare good humor. It is a highly un-saccharine good humor which will remind readers more of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn than of the Peterkin school of writers on Negro themes. And Author Flannagan, without...
...highly organ-ized an industry as any in the U. S. It has laws of its own and a government to administer them, headed by its own fuzzy-haired Tsar, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Tsar Landis and owners of baseball clubs had good reason last week to sigh a big sigh of relief when they learned that, by withdrawing an action known as "The Bennett Case" from the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Club-owner Philip De Catesby Ball of the St. Louis "Browns" had spared them the necessity of testing one of baseball's major...
Lonely U. S. women who patronize matrimonial agencies breathed a sigh of relief last week. Four months ago people had been horrified to learn that a Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemke, matronly divorced nurse of Northboro, Mass., had been found murdered and buried in the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia after a postal courtship. Accused of the killing was small, pudgy, pig-eyed Harry F. Powers of Quiet Dell. In his house was found a trunk full of correspondence from women all over the U. S. Buried near his garage was found another of his correspondents, Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher...
...persistency of a man who would sit all day upon a wet rock with a "rod as long and as heavy as a Tartar's lance," whatever that might be. Our fathers step out into the bright lights of Broadway from a Theatre Guild production, with a soft sigh for days when Thomas Jefferson made Rip Van Winkle stretch his cramped legs upon a New York stage. And Ichabod Crane has become a fixture in America, one might even say a plumbing fixture...
...cellist. Mrs. Hoover attended, applauded vigorously, sent Herr Dr. Kindler a big bunch of yellow chrysanthemums. When Conductor Kindler had learned that Pres ident Hoover would not attend, he had sighed a great sigh of regret. "Ah, me." said he. "The President can always find time to attend the opening of a World Series and throw out the first ball. Tell His Excellency that if he will come to our opening, I will give him a fiddle to throw...