Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...career" began when, after becoming an influential lawyer at Nîmes, he was sent as a beady-eyed, black-mustached Magistrate, first to Indo-China (1890-92) and then to Algeria (1892-93). Returning, he was elected a Deputy, became a noted authority on colonial administration, held several of the lesser Ministries, became a Senator in 1910, and Premier...
General Umberto Nobile, designer and skipper of the ship, had been touring U. S. cities to the great delight of Italo-Americans with Fascist leanings. These put on their black shirts and let their "Vivas" echo from Seattle to Manhattan. Such was Nobile's triumph, in fact, that an impression somehow crept into public prints that he had been responsible not only for handling the Norge but for her accurate navigation as well...
...admiration of his friends, with a powdered countenance, among banked flowers. Seven little pickaninnies, graded like a flight of steps, from Nathan Ellison, a toddler of 18 months, to the big seven-year-old girl from next door, stood in a line on the pavement to watch the black box carried out of the house, and stared round-eyed until the last carriage had turned the corner. Then, the next-to-largest black boy gave a tremendous leap from the curb into the gutter...
...innocent pastime, often perverted by adults into a gambling game; in principle it is the same as drawing lots. Several white pebbles and one black pebble are put in a pot or hat. The players draw one pebble each in turn, without looking. Drawing the black pebble puts a player out of the game, when all pebbles are returned to the receptacle and drawing begins afresh among the survivors. The tension of the drawing between the last two players in a good game is "frazzling" to the nerves...
...Academy; at Tamworth, N. H. Divorced. Fawn Gray, famed a year ago as the night club dancing girl who so alluringly interested senile Harry K. Thaw for many an evening; from one Theodore MacFarland, her groom after a two-day party; at Baltimore. Died. Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, 49, "The Black Pope of Bolshevism." (See RUSSIA, p. 10.) Died. Franklin S. Terry, 64, early (1889) maker of incandescent electric light bulbs; at Black Mountain near Asheville, N. C., of heart disease. He brought together a score of struggling makers of lamps 25 years ago and took them into the National Electric...