Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must ask her what she thought of Lindy!" Into the midst of the furor walked Mrs. Coolidge. One lady, Mrs. M. W. Pangburn, immediately fainted, because, as she explained later, "the prospect of meeting the wife of a President" had caused her to lose consciousness. This was the first Black Hills social function that Mrs. Coolidge had attended. That she chose to make her debut at a meeting of the Fortnightly Club was due, not to her favoritism, but to the fact that the members of this club had been the first courageous enough to invite...
...holding rifles across their chests, rushed up San Juan hill. Behind them was the second brigade, 500 men on horseback standing in their stirrups and galloping along, shouting curses or encouragement to one another like polo players. They called themselves the "Rough Riders." Theodore Roosevelt got off a little black horse to lead his men. Leonard Wood was pulling the mouth of a big roan. A few hours later that battle too was won and one soldier told another, as they pulled off their sweaty shirts, how he had frightened a fat Spanish corporal by prodding him with...
...label their dramas with such matter-of-fact simplicity. In this case, it is a story of four maiden sisters of the heavily-upholstered convention-corseted '90s. Two of them have secretly wed the same rascal. One is recognized as wife; the other bears a bastard son. This black thread in their life's pattern is accompanied by the incessant nagging of the wizened humpbacked sister. In the spinsters' parlor-desert their scandal festers almost to the end. The dreariness of their tragedy is incongruously shattered by Marie Carroll, who, as the worm-eaten, twisted sister, insists...
Heat Mines. An unassuming, bespectacled gentleman, John L. Hodgson, mining engineer, asked his hearers to realize how crude were the surface scrapings made by the earliest coal "miners" in comparison with the vast black honeycombs modern machinery digs-and then to realize how picayune were present-day coal mines compared to the shafts that might some day be driven, 30 miles into the earth's crust, to tap a store of heat 31 million times as great as all the heat stored in the world's aggregate coal deposits. A 30-mile bore, one foot in diameter, could...
Twelve tanks contained small Betta splendens, a velvety black- and-bluish fish from Siam, with a round tail and carmine iridescences. A mirror held in front of three-inch Betta splendens soon excites him to the violent pugnacity for which he is world-famed. Sometimes, in a fit of rage, he destroys his own mate...