Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hugo L. Black of Alabama Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida Senator Walter F. George of Georgia Senator Edwin S. Broussard of Louisiana Senator Lee S. Overman of North Carolina Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina...
...William Hale Thompson the horn-blowing mayor, and Fred Lundin, the silent man with the black glasses. The only member of the Lorimer- Thompson-Lundin gang left in power is Lennington Small, Governor of Illinois...
...Warrior who dares to violate the sanctity of the Temple; Basso Ezio Pinza the Pontiff Maximus brought by the infuriated mob to condemn the guilty priestess to a living death. He will strip her of her white robe, leave it on the altar and cover her with a black one, blacker than any sin. Margarete Matzenauer will be the Goddess Vesta, she who sends her lightning bolt to rekindle the holy fire, she who herself forgives La Vestale before a marriage gay with singing and dancing...
Castor oil was changed quickly from a liquid to a solid; cane sugar was turned white; cane sugar in solution was turned acid; common salt was turned brown and rock salt black-all by momentary exposure to the rays...
Clad in a bathing cap and a coat of black axle grease and nothing else, Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmell, a mother, climbed out of New York Harbor into a sheet held by her sister, while whistles screeched and 200 rain-soaked persons hailed her with cheers. She had swum from Albany to the Battery (160 miles) in 57 hr. 11 min., swimming time, beating by 6 hr. 24 min. the record made in 1921 by Mrs. Corson.* She lost 4 pounds, used 72 pounds of fat, ate lumps of sugar soaked in whiskey. Having handed Mayor Walker a letter from...