Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Uncle Joe Cannon, by christening "Joseph Gurney", for many years Speaker of the House, last week made it plain to reporters that he had not even considered twice what to do on his 90th birthday (May 7). His one thought has been, "Supper for three, a black cigar, the Danville (Ill.) Commercial Times, and a poker game till...
...Black Mass," as this rite is often termed, is designed to attain utter blasphemy by burlesquing the Eucharist. The usual procedure is to steal a portion of the consecrated bread during a mass celebrated in the ordinary way. A mock priest, robed in black, holding the cross upside down in his left hand, then performs backward the usual ceremony. The chalice is first filled with wine and then with water. The mock priest, symbolizing Satan, then eats the bread and tramples on the cross. When several persons participate, a general orgy usually follows. Louis XIV, when he celebrated the Black...
...following session the Freshmen continued their scoring when Durkee was hit by a pitched ball, Prior and McGehee walked, and Elkins and Dewing connected safely. The visitors came back in the first of the sixth with four runs. Cole was hit by Malloy at the plate, and Wilson, Black, and Ensign, the next three men to face the Freshman twirler planted safe blows the last man to hit scoring on Earnes infield out. Malloy then settled down and struck the next...
...America has, nevertheless, encountered more and violent race problems than her parent civilization. The Turks threatened Europe once and then degenerated into a crumbling menace and kept the status with enfeebled tenacity. But in America, the white man has ousted the red man, and introduced, enslaved and freed the black, before his encounter with the cast, an encounter which is now rather more of a rising than receding menace. In dealing with it, the pacific idealism diffused among the Caucasions and not foreign to the awakening Asiatic offers a prospect less fraught with catastrophe than were the contacts with...
...wholesome enterprise? Football has a thousand times as many virtues as vices. The game itself has no bad features. It is the emphasis which the public lends it, and if the vicious circle is started this results in distorting values among the players and coaches themselves. Hence the black sheep in this problem are the newspapers and football fans...