Word: blacke
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Black is, if you choose, only a very dark gray, and white a very light one. But it remains important, none the less, to distinguish between black and white. So in the present case the great outstanding fact is this: That, whereas the Allied sort of illegality, if such it be, has caused reparable inconvenience and financial loss, the German sort of illegality has already irreparably destroyed 200 American lives, and now threatens to destroy more. For these lives there is no redress; and to meet this threat there is no course but that of self-protection by force...
...females within sight and preaches ever and anon to his younger brother of the evils of his drinking ways. Mother and "Uncle John," the bishop, also do their best to impress on the same brother that he is sullying the family name and proving himself irretrievably the black-sheep of the family. "The Brat" is the only one in the household that sympathizes, and "Steve" falls truly in love with her honest, cheerful, little, untaught human being. But she has fallen under the idolizing spell of the author-brother and thinks she cares for him. Only when "Steve," hopeless, leaves...
...trot: "Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose...
...quite excellent; the former is not so good; Mr. Norris lets his penchant for the pictorial run away with him. It is true he speaks no more of the sea as "an enchanted moan," but allows the moon to shine brightly on a snowy hill above which is a black sky. Nevertheless, a pretty movement runs throughout, the idea is splendid, and the verses are well finished...
...celebration began with a reception late in the afternoon which was attended by all the former Yale athletic stars who had come to take part in the reunion. Cheer on cheer was given for Captain Black and the victorious team, as well as for Captain Gates of next year's team, Coach Tad Jones, Johnny Mack, the trainer, the scrubs, Captain Myer of the crew, and Captain Overton of the track team. Following the reception a dinner was given to the football team...