Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laden, wrap the long Limehouse streets in a depressing pall of grey. Vice in the East End is as commonplace as elsewhere, though perhaps a bit more furtively unclean. Yet East End squalor has its attractions for aristocrats. Smart Londoners go there occasionally, as do Manhattanites to Harlem's "Black Belt." Blue-blooded Socialists like Lady Cynthia Mosely, daughter of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, dabble there in soapbox oratory.* Thither, for an escape from decorum, went last week Edward of Wales...
...black boundin' beggar for you broke a British square...
...lined up women, tore the babies from their breasts, tossed them in air, impaled them on spear points. Some say that a British propagandist, not Osman Digna, invented this game, but Colonel Horatio Kitchener (young then) took it seriously. He went after Fuzzy Wuzzy at Handub but a black archer pinked the Colonel in the neck, and the man with the ugly face escaped. For a while he hid in the hills, played a deadly kind of squat tag with all the British troops that came where he was. At last a sly captain named Burges chased him into...
...revised cast as announced yesterday follows: Caspar D. W. Moreland '28 Melchior Murray Pease 1G. Balthasar R. H. Jones '30 Messenger G. W. Harrington '30 Herod D. L. Dickson '27 High Priest G. K. Bishop '27 Second Priest Charles Leatherbee '29 Herod's Son A. L. Black '30 First Old Wife Constance Templeton Second Old Wife Helen Field Mary Helen Lewis Gabriel Randita Edwards Joseph R. D. Buck, Occ. Company of Wise Men H. S. Meyer '30 Abbott Peterson Jr. '30 P. C. Sherbert...
...mother told me that I was not cut out for a paper doll, that I had larger things to do than wash other peoples poodles. So at the ripe and mellow age of forty-nine I strapped my felt hat to my black overcoat and set out for Cambridge. Arriving there about half past nine what was my surprise when I saw that someone had arrived there before me--it was quite a thrill to see the long line of Yard Cops on their conservations with their arms crossed across their abdomens and that look which Abraham Lincoln has described...