Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I am amused by the fervor with which some TIME readers advertise the mosquitoes and flies in their altitudes. (Of TIME, July 11). The absence of insects of that nature in the Black Hills is more properly attributable to our lack of stagnant waters than to altitude...
...Mosquitoes are few in the Black Hills...
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...last week's dinner Mrs. Bloomer had draped with black and ornamented with bouquets 31 of the 34 chairs. The three men who remained decided that this would be their last meeting, feeling, perhaps, that none of them might be left alive when July 21 should have arrived again. So they brought out the bottle of Burgundy and stood stiffly erect while Peter Hall gave the toast: "Men love their country now, but our dead comrades loved "it most." The Last Dinner of the Last Man's Club was history...
...tall black perpendicular shadow moved out of the murk of a cloudy night last week in Brooklyn, into a glaring arena, a boxing ring. Soon it slid back into the murk, horizontally. It, the shadow, was the ghost of the reputation as a heavyweight fighter of Harry Wills, onetime Negro stevedore, now an affluent Negro bank depositor. The horizontal departure of Mr. Wills's shadow was effected by a grotesque human with thicket eyebrows, a blasted mouth and arms and legs like bent ingots-Paolino Uzcudun, woodchopper from the Basque country (southwest France). M. Uzcudun, not bothering to protect...