Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coaching launch "Patricia" has not yet arrived here, although it was expected last Tuesday. The weather has held it up, and meanwhile the "Class of 1892" and the "Black Pup," the latter Coach Brown's customary point of vantage, have been plying the waters of the Thames...
...birth of a new ostracism, then Harvard has once again gone too far. When typewriters, pajamas, and cameras go red, blue and flesh, the Senior has opportunity to render his first service to waiting mankind, by calming a world gone color mad with the dignity of baccalaureate black. More that that, his immediate attention to duty might relieve Harvard of the stigma, at present deserved, of self-consciousness...
Meanwhile Science sent huge trimotored Lufthansa planes roaring from Berlin to Hamburg laden with effective gas masks and phosgene fighting equipment. They were not too late to save many lives; but the Death toll stood already at 11, with over 200 patients in hospitals. In that black hour, at Hamburg, shuddering, hysterical thousands thought of THE NEXT...
King Amanullah and Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan emerged, last week, from Soviet Russia. From Moscow via the Crimea and the Black Sea they came to Constantinople, then plunged inland to Angora, the new capital of the Turkish Republic. There King Amanullah, called "The Peace of God" had his hand warmly shaken and both cheeks soundly kissed by the Ghazi, "The Victorious One," President Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
Brown, grey, maroon, blue and green bound kodaks perked their lenses through the show windows of Eastman Kodak Co. stores last week. They were vanity kodaks for the "girl graduate and the bride," said the signs. Eastman, by breaking away from black kodaks, has done what the fountain pen makers did five years ago, and the portable typewriter people more recently...