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Lily had made her home in Paris because she had, years ago, refused to marry her first lover, Governor of the State. She had refused to marry him, in spite of the unborn child, because she declined to be the slave of American convention. For was she not the daughter of Old John Shane, pioneer, who could "ride like hell" and in the same manner, fight and love...
...body with its disgusting discharge. Never have conditions during Bicker Week been as revolting and degrading as those of the last four days. Slander, gossip, and mud-slinging have been the rule instead of the exception. Yesterday witnessed a method of club election which would have put any decent slave-dealer during the worst days of human barter to the blush. Men were passed or rejected in a manner that would make the gorge of any decent man rise. But even this is only a small manifestation of the rottenness of a system which forces the smaller clubs to adopt...
Gandhi himself knew that this would be so. He realized that India was still too deeply in the clutches of a national slave mentality to compete successfully with the organization of the British government. Even still the prophet, unlike so many others, is not without honor. Even though his plans failed and he himself was shattered, the faith of his people in him and his principle remains unshaken...
Died. Isaiah Montgomery, 77, Negro leader and onetime slave of Jefferson Davis; at Mound Bayou, Miss., Negro town founded...
...incomprehensible industry he controlled the natives, pushed British trade, extored, painted, studied native languages, worked as a botanist and zoologist, wrote books and articles, dealt with the delicate diplomatic questions raised by the colonial rivalry of the other European nations. He undertook exhausting expeditions, fought minor wars with Arab slave traders, assisted the missionaries to make the African world safe for commerce, apparently did it all with the utmost British gravity...