Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furthering his pet scheme to create a Royalist dictature with himself as Dictator. This scheme has matured so rapidly of late that even the Croatian Opposition leader, fiery Stefan Raditch, has been won over to support His Majesty. But the revelation of last week was most unsettling, cast a black stigma on the Royalist cause. A lady-in-waiting revealed that the King said bitterly to Queen Marie (daughter of Marie of Rumania): "One man without clothes seems stronger than my robes of State...
...Stockings. President Edward Freschl of Holeproof Hosiery, Milwaukee,* told a trouble last week: "Suddenly, somewhere, some woman conceived the idea of black shoes and champagne colored stockings. The idea spread Variations of style followed quickly. Where 480 styles of stockings were carried in 1920, the company now has to carry 6006." Remington Rand Inc. Chairman Benjamin La Fon Winchell of Remington Typewriter explained the pending merger of his company with Rand-Kardex (visible indexes), Baker-Vawter (filing cabinets) and Dalton Adding Machine: "Throughout the world these concerns are duplicating their selling efforts [through 4,500 field representatives] to an extent...
This gypsum gink or hillside hoopus?whatever its name might be?had soft black fur girdled with white, and white cuffs above its paws. Its front paws resembled human hands, Mr Miller said, except that the hairy black fingers reminded him of a tarantula. He could span the animal's neck with his thumb and forefinger, though it stood 30 inches high and weighed 20 pounds. The hind paws were sharply clawed, for climbing and scratching. A sharp-pointed face peered out from a fringe of mustache, like a monkey's. The nose was hard, smooth, rubbery. With its sharp...
...guessers) wrote in to say that the cards held up had been every card in the pack, including the joker. Actually, as a few guessed, it was the deuce of clubs, later the nine of hearts? but no one described the design of the cards: green on a black field, and red on a black field. They said the picture was a portrait of Edward VII, of the Prince of Wales on horseback, of Mona Lisa, of a spaniel, a cauliflower. Actually it was a Japanese print of two birds perched on a human skull. The nearest "thought" sent...
...shroud details; these are handled gently but with such calm precision that close scrutiny will reveal no blurred edges. Fastrade von de Warthe walks in the great park, brooding, but her figure is seen clearly through the trees. Dietz von Egloff, with unrest in his soul, rides his black stallion over the estates when the countryside is abed, but the effect is not supernatural. The beast's hoofs ring sharply, the rider's voice is strong and clear...