Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over Watertown, S. D., an immense flock of dapper Lapland Longspurs* migrated north. The males were colored black, white and ochreous; the females were a little duller and streaked. They all sang-until they headed into a freezing layer of air. Then they began tumbling, like feathers from a ripped pillow. Hundreds were chilled to death when they struck the ground. Other managed to reach trees. Where their long claws clutched at bark, they found footage and rested, necks pulled in, eyes squinting miserably...
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...Washington, August J. Keck, 57, cook, going down his dark cellar steps, suddenly felt his black house cat clawing viciously at his pants leg. He 'was standing, momentarily, on the cat's tail. The cat screeched; Cook Keck jumped, tripped, fractured his skull against the cellar floor...
...others were subtly changed-Tessa into a jealous fury; Boris and Kim into love-sick school-puppies. The Legs noticed, and shut Rennie in the goat house, thrashing Kim when he nearly gnawed in to her with his sharp terrier teeth. Then the Legs-in-Authority brought the romantic black stranger up from San Remo on a leash and put him-oh, outrage!-into the goat house...
...Seductive, the Disdainful, was even reduced to writing him poetry and in her abandon asked Toes, who rolled with mirth, what rhymed with "spaniel." That was why Kim sarcastically called him the Dark Gentleman of the Sonnets and part of the reason that Boris nearly ripped out his silky black throat; would have, too, but for the Savory Legs (Italian gardener). The Dark Gentleman flaunted his scars to the French poodle next door when he got home, imagining in his afterglow that he had slain Boris. Rennie's afterglow was somewhat marred by the bath to which...