Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black-furred cub of a silver-tipped sire, boyish Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette of Wisconsin, mounted the convention platform last week as his dead father had so often done before him, to voice the "conscience" of the G. 0. P. He followed Senator Smoot. He presented what has been called, since 1908 when the senior La Follette began the practice, "The Minority Report on the Platform...
...black eye" referred to by Grand Sachem Voorhis was, of course, William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, the coarse, corpulent crook who grafted incredibly on New York City while he was Grand Sachem. He died in jail 50 years ago. Beside the doings of Tweed, the political peccadilloes of other 'Tammany 'members are dwarfed. Tweed and his "ring," controlling the city's Board of Supervisors, cleared tens of millions in letting contracts, selling permits and offices, contributing for the city to "charities." A plasterer named Garvey once got $133,187.20 for two days' work from the City...
...Send me some of our black bread. This white French bread makes me sick...
...downhill toward the hairpin turn called Tattenham Corner. No horse has a chance unless he is one of the first two or three to get round. Flamingo was still in front but now Felstead came round him into the turn and raced for the wire with Flamingo losing ground. Black Watch came out of the pack and pressed up along the rail to finish third...
...freight ship getting into the port of Columbo held the winning ticket, worth $1,250,000, on Felstead in the Calcutta Sweepstake. A girl named Helm who works in a London brewery won $625,000 in the Stock Exchange Pool. A stock broker had held the ticket on Black Watch (worth $10,000) but had sold it to a customer...