Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Black Hills lies Custer Park, South Dakota's 125,000-acre forest reserve. Famed for its elk, buffalo, trout, natural caves, bottomless lake, needle-like rock-for-mation, Custer Park offered high altitudes and cool breezes to the presidential tourist...
Some 30 hours train-ride west of Chicago, close to the South Dakota-Wyoming boundary line, stretches a mountain range known to the Indians as the Paha Sapa (Black Hills). Once they formed part of the Sioux Indian Reservation but when, in 1874, gold deposits were discovered, the red men were quickly served with notices to depart. Later the hills gave sanctuary to horse-thieves, cattle-rustlers and all manner of "wanted" men with blood on their hands and prices on their heads. Now the hills are subdued and subdivided, and populous with tourists. The gasoline station has supplanted...
...will be asked to journey to the "Summer White House" in the Black Hills of South Dakota, so that President Coolidge may personally bestow upon him the Distinguished Flying Cross. When Congress convenes in December, he will probably be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor...
Meanwhile the following Ontario liquor prices were tantalizingly announced : Scotch whiskey (Black & White), $3.55 per quart...
...clowns were not what they were in my day, or even in yours, kind reader. Influenced by the last feeble, thwarting repercussions of the romatic movement they forgot their classic heritage; they forgot even to be funny; and they did the Black Bottom! I did not let my less critical roommate see my tears. He too, some day, will grow up and learn that we are but shadows in a shadow land, that even, even the clowns of today are. . . . . well, must...