Word: black
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Black faces will be on parade tonight in Sanders Theater when the Harvard University Male Employees Mutual Benefit Association presents the second in a series of minstrel shows started...
Nehru's day began early and confusedly. At 10 a.m. his black Chrysler sped up to a Wellesley gate and was firmly deported by a guard with orders to "keep the cars out, because Nehru was coming." Despite this inauspicious beginning, the official party managed to reach Wellesley Chapel, where it met with a warmer reception. Over 1700 girls swarmed out of the classrooms and sat on the lawns and hung from the trees to see the Pandit. Sensing the importance of the occasion, they gave oral vent to their emotions...
...guinea pig he used was a single play of the Dartmouth football team. The movements of the backs are given in the black-bordered portion of the diagram below, and it may be noted that their actions in the five variations of the play are identical in each case for the major part of the play...
...variation one (upper left) the quarterback hands the ball off directly to the right half, and then fakes to the fullback (the black line indicates the path of the ball). On variation two, he fakes to the right half and actually gives to the fullback circling left...
...Cage's chief claim to novelty is that Lowry has exaggerated it, overplayed it and touched it up with interludes of near-slapstick adventure. His Richard Black of Gorker Street in Cincinnati decides to become a great writer at the age of nine, and on his attic typewriter pounds out stories of Tan the Wonder Dog, of Detective Jim Burdett, of the tenth-round comeback of Battling Ramsey. Later, influenced by Caldwell, Hemingway and Faulkner, he turns out endless stories of prostitutes, gangsters, murderers. In college he edits a highbrow magazine and runs away with the wife (five years...