Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...among the Abruzzi hills. The prisoners, who thus suffered only the normal confinement prescribed for dangerous criminals by Italian custom, were beamed upon by dark-eyed and fashionably gowned Italian Signoras, of whom there were dozens in the court. Other admiring females had presented them with especially woven Fascist black shirts. Their carefully knotted black ties and cool indifferent bearing suggested that no undue alarm surged in the breasts of these alleged murderers of Giacomo Matteotti, millionaire, Socialist, irreconcilable foe of Benito Mussolini (TIME, June...
Ecuador. For 18 hours ink-black clouds deluged Oro Province. Moment by moment the Jubones River roared louder. Frightened Ecuadorians sought shelter in their homes. At last, the river overflowed, drowned 50 persons, caused $2,000,000 property damage...
...boxers were garbed in brown kid gloves and black tights, over which the champion draped a Canadian blanket, and Risko (Clevelander) wore a ringside cloak resembling a brown plaid bathrobe. These latter were dispensed with and the pasting began. Before the first round was over Mr. Berlenbach discovered that the 15 1/2 lb. he had given away were coming back to him with a vengeance. Most of these pounds seemed to be in Mr. Risko's left mitten. Toward the end of the first round the knowledge of how much weight he had given away came to Mr. Berlenbach...
...PLUMED SERPENT?D. H. Lawrence?Knopf ($3). Here lies Mexico, a sullen nation of black obsidian, brooding beneath a cruel sun. Christ hangs dead upon his cross and the name of Mary is a sterile myth in dusty shrines. By night, among the peons, the old gods stir, the Aztec gods. Quetzalcoatl, the bird-snake, is come again from "the cave which is called the Dark Eye, behind the sun," where the waters rise and the winds are borne on the waters of the afterlife. Through hia priests he brings a new manhood and womanhood, to be entered by night...
Arthur Train's book is The Blind Goddess (Scribner's). Kathleen Norris has written this time about English folk, in The Black Flemings (Doubleday, Page). Archibald Marshall collaborated with H. A. Vachell on Mote House Mystery (Dodd, Mead). Patricia Wentworth's latest is The Dower House Mystery (Small, Maynard...