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...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 the usual studied accoutrements of a simple style, can write simple conversational English to a turn...
...which you have dealt with the un-American and unDemocratic propaganda issued for the purpose of interfering with the success of my friends and supporters...
...erudition, inspiration and philosophy. If the German people have a "national poem" it is Faust.* The Emperor Napoleon, to whom Genius Goethe was presented at the zeniths of their careers, engaged him in profound conversation for some time, then implanted the seal of French approval by exclaiming, "Voila un homme?There...
Although "Abie" displayed many of the objectionable traits which Jew-baiters ascribe to Jews?venality, craftiness, stinginess, cowardice?U. S. Jews have more than tolerated him. Reasons:1) he was the "comedian" (not the hero) of the strip, surrounded by un-caricatured Jewish characters; 2) he was preferable to the oldtime stage comic Jew who wore beard and derby, talked with his hands. A colyum in the current issue of The Zionist comments on his change of locale: "Here is where the Graphic gets our daily two cents." Two months ago many a Jewish weekly printed an editorial...
...chosen, handfuls of straw. Outside, in the Piazza of St. Peter, is the mob, its eyes on a chimney. Smudgy black smoke indicates burning straw. Days pass. After 14 ballots the mob sees that the smoke is thin, white. "Habemus Pontificem!" We have a Pope! Cries the mob: "Un Papa! Viva il Papa...