Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Issue of Oct. 21, p. 17, "General Pershing's 'Lafayette, we are here.' " Not his. Col. Charles E. Stanton, U.S.A., now of San Francisco, spoke for ''Black Jack" at Picpus Cemetery, and coined the phrase. When Stanton wrote his speech in advance of delivering it, Pershing read it and inked his O.K. on it. The manuscript belongs to the Family (club) of S.F. The phrase is its preoration. Furthermore, Pershing gave Stanton credit some years ago in a letter published in Collier...
...prisons must be built in Nyland [recently renamed Usimaa], and in every other Finnish province!" he declared, went on to demand new asylums, more enforcement agents. But, after pledging himself to continue sternest measures, "Black Jalander" concluded...
...Black, Starr & Frost-Gorham, Inc., famed Manhattan jewelers, opened the doors of their new Fifth Avenue store last week. The interior was 16th century Italian Gothic. Displayed was a $750,000 pearl necklace, exquisitely matched...
After they have decided what they think about the curtain, and inspected the broad shallow horseshoe of boxes to see how many and which Insulls, McCormicks, Ryersons, Fairbankses, Fieldses, Cranes. Swifts, Thornes and family jewels are present, Chicago first-nighters will see the black-haired girl and her white camels vanish upward (the stage ceiling is supported by a 73½ foot steel truss, the largest ever used, capable of carrying more than 11,000,000 pounds). After Conductor Giorgio Polacco has become a shadow in a bowl of shadow, his shirtfront and the tip of his nose touched with...
Pirate Plane. On the Black Sea a pirate ship is using a seaplane to locate prey. Thus was the Greek steamer Euripides spotted last week and robbed...