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Amid sobs from the congregation, the collection plates were heaped high with money to free the slave girl. Thereafter Henry Ward Beecher, zealous Abolitionist, continued to bring slaves into his Plymouth Church. This congregation had been founded in 1846 by three men who broke away, from the nearby Church of the Pilgrims. Inducing Henry Ward Beecher to be their preacher, they soon heard people saying: ''If you want to hear him preach, take the ferry to Brooklyn and then follow the crowd." Preacher Beecher stayed with Plymouth Church for the remaining 40 years of his life...
...lose to de Oro 50-10-46. For a time during the 66-game competition it looked as if the lead might pass to Willie Hoppe, who is not really old (46), or to young Jay Bozeman, married for the second time just before the tournament and sporting a slave bracelet on his left wrist. But by last week all but two of the twelve contestants had played eleven matches and lost three or more. Those two were Cochran and Layton, each with eight wins out of ten. Their match last week, on the last night of the tournament...
...Gullahs are negroes, whose forefathers tilled the soil, reaped the harvests, and shined the boots of slave owners long before Emancipation; the present Gullahs perform the same homely functions today, and the Civil War, (the only war they recognize) has left them little changed. Indeed, the grizzled old deacons are constantly harking back to the good old days, and the occasional automobile seen in those parts is regarded with mild contempt by eyes which, in brighter days, have seen the Colonel spin swiftly past in his glittering coach and four...
...from his father's sleepy hostelry in Black Thread, Connecticut, to the top rank of the "Mine Hosts" of America. His vicissitudes in the course that progress constitute the thread the story, and Myron's whole life in 1897 to 1933 is bound up with his career as the slave of hospitality. His whole life is told in terms of hotels even his emotional experiences through his marriage (Effie May is totally devoid of color), and his musings are extricably bound up with ice water, phones in every room, and room service. The only variant note is struck the character...
Senator Nye used warmer language: "If what seems to have been the policy of NRA is continued the plunderers may well adopt 'The Last Round-Up' as their theme song and trample under heel whatever remains of independent business and make the consumer a mere slave...