Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish for theatre tickets; but the larger Manhattan agencies immediately announced that they would stick to the 50c fee, "unless the demand for tickets develops into a wild scramble." The smaller, scurrilous dealers, who have been conducting a surreptitious business since 1922, rubbed their palms and cheered the five black-robed justices, of whom they had probably never heard before last week. Broadway producers and managers sought to reach an agreement to combat any renewed scalping activity...
...vanguard of March examinations strangely miscalled the April hours, begins to mark black days on the student calendar, the Vagabond finds himself frequenting more and more the archives of Widener Library...
...Commercial Generations", Professor Black, Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Physics...
Jammed in the hard, black deep; and over these...
...Story.† Serafino Gubbio serves a black, knock-kneed spider. Daily he whets its appetite with coils of transparent membrane. Not knowing why, creatures come near and sacrifice their real selves to the spider. Serafino Gubbio helps the spider devour them. Not long afterwards, myriad people issue from dark places where, seeking pleasure, they have seen the ghosts made by the spider. Relieved to be out again, they say, "What terrible rot!" Serafino Gubbio is a cinematograph operator for a big company near Rome...