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Word: blackend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troubles with Harvard. Once, he arrived in the middle of a Square riot. Realizing that this was a good chance for publicity, he had his eyes blackened with charcoal by a student. Then he called over photographers from the press wire services and showed them his "eyes which were blackend by a Harvard student." The following day newspapers throughout the nation picked up the picture of Mickey Sullivan with "the blackeyes which rioting Harvard students inflicted...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin and William M. Simmons, S | Title: Town-Gown War End Sees Harvard . . . . . . Cambridge Friends | 12/13/1950 | See Source »

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