Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shubert Apollo--Black Crook. 8.15 o'clock...
...still too early to make specific charges. In a social system which depends so entirely upon the integrity of big corporations, even the most radical can derive but a sad sort of pleasure in a gleeful "I told you so" when big business is cast under a black shadow. As yet the shadow has not settled definitely over more than a single individual; the Senate's findings are still far from complete and fairness as well as a decent confidence in American institutions demands a complete suspension of judgement until all the evidence is in. One thing, however, seems moderately...
...gaudy contrivance made of bright new sheet tin, wooden mouldings colored bright red and black and a strip of compressed cork. It looked like a modernistic candy counter, except that a long piece of pipe went with...
...Telluride district contains gold, silver, lead, zinc. Famed mines: Liberty Bell, Silver Pick, Tomboy, Black Bear, Smuggler...
...Black Airmail. At Duisburg, Germany, one Hermann Pattberg, rich manufacturer, received a package containing a carrier pigeon and a note ordering him to tie a 5,000-mark ($1,191) bank note to the pigeon and release it. Otherwise he would be killed. Shrewd Herr Pattberg hired a plane and pilot which followed the pigeon and photographed the house on which it alighted. Duisburg police soon arrested the blackmailer. Less smart were Manhattan police last April when a Dr. Louis Alofsin received a pair of pigeons and a demand for $10,000. Police, futile with field glasses on housetops, watched...