Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sleek French packet Amiral Pierre steamed southward through the Mediterannean last week her first cabin passengers regarded with awe a squat, hawk-beaked Moroccan with a short bristling black beard who appeared now and then on deck always accompanied by two armed French guards. Spain and France had poured out hundreds of millions in gold, and tens of thousands in lives to place the sardonic Moroccan with his brother, their wives and suite upon the Amiral Pierre. Not six months ago Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim and his brother Muhammed were holding the Riffian fastnesses of Morocco against that master...
...Black Shirts, you must obey the orders of the chief, who alone has the right to judge and to indicate the line of conduct. We offer to him who resists intrepidly this new proof of our unlimited devotion...
...Piero Ginori Conti of Italy, who described the taming of waterfalls and hot volcanic springs in the Apennines to produce the power to make the electricity that now supplies Italy with acetic acid without apples (vinegar); wood alcohol from coal instead of trees; camphor, ammonia, formaldehyde, artificial silk for black shirts, from their chemical constituents...
...this day courtiers at the Hague recall the Queen Mother's words of blistering scorn when Crown Princess Juliana, precocious at 15, became innocently infatuated with a 30 year old Jewish widower, Gabriel Alara, a sweet-voiced, black-eyed cantor in an Amsterdam synagog (TIME, Dec. 8, 1923.) But such is the winsomeness of Princess Juliana that, in her presence, all is soon forgiven...
...arbitrary and unexplained closing by the Turkish police of a Baby Clinic, charitably financed by U. S. citizens including Admiral Bristol (TIME, Sept. 14) famed and able U. S. High Commissioner to Turkey. The Admiral, at whose lightest word Turks have learned to jump, was cruising in the Black Sea last week knew not that his Baby Clinic was menaced...