Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...died in 1921, his father a month later. During the 60 years that Dreicer & Co. has been in business, it has sold $100,000,000 of ornaments, $65,500,000 during the past 20 years. Last week it was being dissolved. Every piece of jewelry in the bronze and black-faced store at Fifth Avenue and 46th Street was being sold-like so many baubles in a bargain basement-for one-third off. There was a necklace of perfectly matched pearls, the finest piece in the store, to be sold for $250,000, with the sale's one-third...
...including Mark Twain, the Chicago Commission on Race Relations, Negro poets, psychology professors. First, Professor Dowd explains whence the Negro came, what he does today and how he does it. In the North the Negro is essentially a city dweller, inhabiting segregated districts-Harlem in New York City, the "Black Belt" (old South Side) in Chicago. Since the '80s and '90s, his industrial significance has slipped a bit; the Italians beat him out of the bootblacking business; the Scandinavians made more alert janitors; both the French and the Italians put more tasty frills into catering; labor unions dogged...
WHITE WATERS AND BLACK - Gordon MacCreagh - Century ( $ 5 ). Serious-minded Amazon exploration boldly chronicled...
...Coles Philips would say, it's small enough to fit any girl's stocking as well as to rest upon her knee--a sentence which suggests that "Oddly Enough" is a very fine book. An arrangement in black. Mr. McCord in the words of Whistler implies that he has attempted a sortie into the field of etching. The implication may be accepted. His sortie is quite successful...
...seas of mud and acres of dust traversed by caravans of jolting carts and finally by camels into the great northern desert compose the panorama, which finally reaches its climax at the beginning of the snow-less Mongolian winter when the expedition sights the walls of ancient Kharakhoto, the Black City of Marco Polo, deserted for centuries to the shifting sands of the desert, a romantic paradise for the adventuring archaeologist...