Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duty in the engine room reached for levers, were whirled away by the inrushing torrent. In the choppy waves struggled sailors knocked overboard by the impact. Sinking fast into the ocean were the men caught below, clambering frantically up onto the pipes as the black water pursued. Deadly chlorine gas swirled from the battery compartment. With a swish the glistening submarine sank beneath the moonlit waves. Three were saved...
...Burst into unseemly shouts of "Hi! Ho! Hum!" when His Majesty's Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod rapped thrice on the Commons' door to summon them before the bar of the Lords...
...Lifted disdainful eyebrows as the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod shepherded before the bar of the Lords many an M. P. - several grumbling audibly at their obligation to hear read His Majesty's assent to the bill...
...loveliness? For it is not the beauty of gay lights; Nor of swift moving crowds; nor quick young laughter ; Nor of shop-thronged streets; nor the sharp hard clink of money Passing from fist to fist. Rather it is the beauty Of an old, old woman in a black mantilla; Of an old, old woman with unutterable wisdom Behind her wordless reticence; who lights a candle In token of prayer before a faded picture of the Madonna. Or it is humble beauty- A flock of goats tumbling down a slope At twilight; or a silent beauty Of wine-dark shadows...
...High Mass. Robed in their most gorgeous vestments, the assemblage of churchmen provoked manifestations of devout reverence. In front glinted the cross with a candle-bearer on each side. Then followed, seriatim, colorbearers, resplendent church flags, cherubic altar boys ranging in size upwards like steps, seminarians four abreast in black cassocks with white surplices. Last, preceded by pages and surrounded by a retinue of priests, marched the scarlet cardinals,* with purple-clad Prelate Bonzano dispensing blessings upon his genuflecting worshipers. Said Cardinal Hayes in delivering the sermon: ". . . . This magnificent edifice ... is in very truth 'a structural Te Deum...