... by appearing in their white, ghostlike costumes, but by their habits and actions whenever they were riding. The typical image of the Klan, the burning of the cross, dates back to the 1860s. The original purpose for this act was to honor the Scottish ancestry, who used to burn lights ... on the coastline and in high places, to indicate the coming of danger. However, some parts of the Klan have used the burning cross for intimidations and in because of this have given this idea a negative implication. Other forms of action that the Ku Klux Klan had ... stabbing and beatings through their ...

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... ) The poem reflects the intensity of the Roaring Twenties, and the degree that it could not and did not last. Nobody knew at the time but 1929 loomed; not as a bright light but as a year that would extinguish any heat that the decade still contained. In the second stanza of the poem, 'but ah my foes' refers to the conservationists in ... , a US Senator had commented that alcohol "artificially stimulates an evil habit it methodically breeds debauchery, poverty, anarchy and crime". But the new society was too close to its own debauchery. 'Burning the candle at both ends' was the social addi...

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