Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late President), assisted by six young experts on precedence from the Treasury and State Departments, took the guests to their seats. The President and his wife had one of the front pews. Mrs. Coolidge wore for the first time a gown of ecru lace over a black satin slip. The Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden were present, she wearing a gown of apricot pink crepe, with a skirt of self-colored lace. The only decorations in the chapel were six golden vases of lilies on the altar and white ribbons outlining the aisles...
...Hall of the Americas, Secretary Mellon, Senator Bruce and Mrs. Bruce, in a demi-toilet of black chiffon and lace over a white chiffon slip faced with pagoda blue, received the guests, President and Mrs. Coolidge first. The entire Cabinet, the entire Supreme Court, a few Senators and Representatives, many diplomats, the royalty from Sweden, many friends, were in line. Mrs. Harvey Arthur Lee, the bride's mother, however, was not present. Mrs. Dawes was present, but the Vice President could not leave the Senate...
Even as Southern gentlemen have been time and again aroused to the hanging, burning and mutilation of human flesh in expiation for the black ravishment of their white women, so can the peaceful farmers of the West be aroused to violence in expiation for violation of their property rights...
...Paris, the rows of shops of the Societe Anonyme des Usines Renault had been shut down for nine days. Baggy trousered watchmen, caped gendarmes paraded warily 'about the works. At street corners and at the cafes of the workers' quarter morose workers in felt derbies, flattened peaked caps or black sailor straws, harangued one another. They wanted an immediate raise of 20% in wages. The company was willing to advance only 10%. Impasse. Many a worker regretted the quietude of last May Day, on which in past years workers had demonstrated their discontents...
Edouard Manet (1832-83) was among the first of the Impressionists. He has been consistently confused with his contemporary, Monet, by people who cannot tell black from white. Manet's figures are flat; Monet's trees and seas and flowery forests leap with a wind of movement. Manet loved light; Monet loved shading. Manet painted with a brush as broad as a glance of the eye; Monet put his color on in tiny dots. Manet saw life as a gleam; Monet saw it as a shimmer. It was late in life that Manet came to recognition; he was laughed...