Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MUSIC BEGINS PLAYING LIVELY MARCH HOUSELIGHTS GO OUT ONLY BLACK VELVET CURTAINS ILLUMINATED STOP MEGAPHONES ANNOUNCE MISS GERMANY WILL FIRST APPEAR STOP BAND THIRTY MUSICIANS STOPS OVERTURE STOP PAUSE THREE MINUTES FOLLOWS ALL FOOTLIGHTS TURNED...
WHEN MISS BRAZIL APPEARS STAGE TONIGHT [the first wire from Galveston read] WILL WEAR SEVERE BLACK CHIFFON GOWN ON PINK SLIP WITH GARLAND ROSES RUNNING DIAGONALLY ACROSS BREAST STOP NO HEAD DRESS FLESH COLORED HOSE BLACK SHOES ALSO DIAMOND NECKLACE AND DIAMOND AND SAPPHIRE BROOCH CENTER CHEST...
...spoke M. Briand: "The German delegate is shaking the foundations of the League for domestic political advantage," he rasped. "He is abusing the confidence of the public and giving the League a black eye before the world for inferring that it has not been doing its fullest duty toward minorities...
Defending his client from the onslaught of the effervescent tycoons was black-gowned Maître Joseph Paul-Boncour, famed lawyer, author of ponderous tomes, former Minister of Labor. But brash M. Reboux did not rely alone on the fame of oratorical Maître Paul-Boncour. Impressed with the formidable forces against him, he appealed for help to the Syndicat des Journalistes, an organization comparable to the U. S. Authors' League...
...blinding heat, a French army patrol wound deep into the Atlas Mountains last week. Ambling, loose-jointed came a detachment of the Camel Corps, then a sweltering khaki-clad detachment of the Foreign Legion, finally a black-skinned, red-fezzed detachment of stalwart Senegalese. The column entered the pass called El Bordj. Nothing is there but blistering rocks, flat, cracked stretches of baked mud. The French column, losing contact with their flank outposts, pushed forward intent on reaching the evening's camp...