Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Festive banquet foodstuffs and funeral meats were served in Baltimore in the same week for newspapermen. Van Lear Black, chairman of the board. of the Baltimore Sun, returned from a long trip abroad studying aviation and was feted; John Haslup Adams, for many years editor of the same journal, died and was buried...
...banquet hall in the Alcazar Hotel was transformed into a temporary airplane hangar. Five hundred guests sat down to dinner; among them Herbert C. Hoover, Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, Anthony H. G. Fokker, Owen D. Young, Franklin D. Roosevelt. All talked aviation, particularly commercial aviation; all honored Van Lear Black, potent banker as well as newspaper solon, for his ten-month survey of commercial flying abroad...
...play is based on the eminently successful novel of the same name by Du Bose Heyward (white). Its central figure is a crippled boy. The theme: his love for a girl intermittently addicted to dope. The third figure of the triangle is a towering black murderer who is choked to death by the cripple's steely fingers in the final...
...thought, a dream, waking farmers to a remembrance of grief, there winds through Manhattan the sound of boat horns. To those who grope for sleep in the darkness before dawn, they are hounds baying a gigantic sorrow, whining the threat of a remote doom. In the morning, sharp black noses sniff a zigzag scent across the harbor down the Hudson; the horns make cheerful yappings that in the dark, were the voices of a nightmare...
...Hamm, another Sophomore who completes the much heralded Dartmouth backfield. Hamm stepped into the shoes of the injured regular. Black, last week against Temple and distinguished himself by his work in backing up the line on the defense and by the smoothness with which he fitted into the Dartmouth plan of attack...