Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...racketeers. True, there were four bombings as the election approached, but they did not cause much damage and nobody bothered about them. They did not count. In Chicago an election means fun, excitement. Calliopes in the crowded Loop, red-fire in Grant Park, an almost continuous uproar in the Black Belt; 1,000 stump orators stumping, spouting, shouting on sidewalks, in public halls, in theatres, in real theatres where they have real plays. It is amazing that nobody has ever become excited about the sidewalks of Chicago, which last week were certainly the most excitable sidewalks in the world. They...
Imagine seeing a black cat in front of the house, first thing in the morning of the day your husband expects to be elected President of the United States...
When captured the assassin was of uncouth appearance, ragged of shirt, scrubby of beard. But when he stepped before the microphone, last week, José de León Toral was not only clean shaven, but clad in black sack coat, double-breasted vest, and trousers of smart pin stripe. Speaking deliberately for two full hours, he explained to the caballeros and señoras of the radio audience minutely how and why he assassinated the President-Elect...
...husband to a polling place, with their sons and daughter-in-law. They returned to a house full of people, sandwiches, chrysanthemums, telegraph tickers and commotion, to wait and hear how many millions of citizens were voting the way the Hoovers had voted. If Mrs. Hoover thought about the black cat during the day, there was another "omen," too. It was not only Mrs. Smith's birthday, but Herbert Hoover...
...Johnnie Walker Whiskey, Celanese, Odol, Mobiloil, Black and White Whiskey, Ovahine. Lever Brothers' Sunlight Soap, Morris Cars, Waterman's Pens, Sunbeam Cars, Forhan...