Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Going home for Christmas, jaded Congressmen had time and opportunity to read about themselves in the language of one of themselves. Red-headed (but amiable) Representative Loring M. Black Jr. of Brooklyn, N. Y., in an article entitled "Congress Isn't So Bad" in Plain Talk for January wrote as follows: ". . . The question before the house is: Has Congress become a governmental vermiform appendix? "In the House of Representatives' membership of 435 there is not enough hair on the involved faces to stuff a pin cushion. . . . "The more lenient critics believe we are unacquainted with contemporary poetry. Well...
...those curious but familiar public idols, the little blonde murderesses. After she has killed her man, Roxie is frightened for a few minutes. But what with the excitement of telling the reporters how she came to do it, the delights of seeing her name right up in big black letters on yellow or pink paper, the merry diversion of raising her skirt and eyebrows at the jury so that they will acquit her, she quite naturally forgets that she has committed a crime...
...Black Monks...
...sang "Old Abe Lincoln Came Out of the Wilderness": Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Down in Illinois. "Man Goin' Roun' " came from Columbia, S. C. A homely, black woman sang it: There's a man goin' roun' takin' names, There's a, man goin' roun' takin names...
...Lect. Rm. Mr. Carpenter, 8 Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Dewey, 4, 20 New Lect. Hall Mr. Bushnell, 14 New Lect. Hall Mr. Harvey, 17 New Lect. Hall Mr. Keogh, 3, 16 New Lect. Hall Mr. Moore, 2, 18 New Lect. Hall Mr. Smyser, 19, 22 New Lect. Hall Mr. Black, 1 Memorial Hall Mr. McMullen, 5, 10, 15 Memorial Hall Mr. Raymond, 9, 12 Memorial Hall Mr. Wright, 13 Memorial Hall Fine Arts 5e Fogg Mus. Fine Arts 15f Fogg Mus. Fine Arts 17 Fogg Mus. French 10 Harvard 5 French 26 Harvard 6 Government 23 Harvard 6 History...