Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lieutenant Jefferson Davis mustered into the U. S. army Abraham Lincoln, head of a group of Illinois volunteers enlisting for the Black Hawk Indian...
...successfully invaded by troops landed from a hostile fleet was the conclusion reached after the completion of last week's War Game between the United States Fleet under Admiral Charles F. Hughes and defending land forces under Major General Preston Brown. Theoretically, the invading fleet, known as the Blacks, with transports bearing 75,000 troops, reduced coast defense forts and landed some 20,000 men. But the defending army, known as the Blues, concentrated superior forces against the Black landing troops, prevented them from advancing inshore, dominated the situation as the "war" ended...
...Rhetorical Guide which, later called McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader, easily rivaled all the original four readers for popularity and inspired the elder brother to compile a prodigious Sixth. The Guide contained selections chosen to improve inflection and memory as well as morals and sentiment. There were the "Village Black smith," "Thanatopsis," "Gray's Elegy," "Lochinvar" and Hamlet's soliloquy. Stern questions followed each selection to test the reader's attention and earnestness...
Nungesser & Coli. More than eight days had passed since Capt. Charles Eugene Jules Marie Nungesser, idol of Paris, onetime cowpuncher in Argentina, multi-wounded War ace with platinum-patched bones, and Capt. François Coli, son of a hardy clan of seamen, with a black patch over his right eye, left the Paris airport of Le Bourget (TIME, May 16). It was barely possible that they had lost their way in the fog and were alive somewhere in the wilderness of Labrador. It was more likely that heavy ice on the wings of their plane forced them to death...
...Media, Pa., Bernard C. Black, 84, called "Old Man of the Chimney" because for many years he refused to budge from a burned-down, ramshackle ruin consisting chiefly of a chimney on a $100,000 tract of land owned by him, died, following an apoplectic stroke...