Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slumped in a front-row black-leather seat in the House last week, chin cupped in hand, listening to a pale, grave, calm President (see p. 11), possible attacks on that aggressive defense went through his mind. By week's end one thing was clear about the isolationist strategy: the old bogey of the House of Morgan was to be hung like an albatross around Franklin Roosevelt's neck...
...even such black marks as Mr. Larry Clinton's persistent swipings from Tschaikowsky can cover up some of the fine playing done this year both on records and in person by a great many bands. Among the crop of new outfits, trombonists Jack Teagarden and Jack Jenny and pianist Teddy Wilson have units worth watching . . . The public's taste in jazz has kept on improving; consequently, Mr. Shaw is finding things just a bit more difficult. His tripe isn't quite as easy to pan-handle this year . . . Benny Goodman has broken the biggest unwritten law in jazz by having...
Abandoning a policy of many years standing, the waitresses in three University dining halls, including the usually stolid Freshman Union, have doffed their traditional black in favor of chic uniforms of green and white...
Lowell, Eliot, Kirkland, Winthrop, and Loverett continue to clothe their waitresses in black. Miss Murray, perennial guardian of the Union's gates, has also refused to allow herself to be swept away by a splash of color...
...members of the Class of '40, under the command of Lt. L. J. McPeake, U. S. N., cruised on the destroyer, Herbert, while the Freshmen and Sophomores, under Lt. Hugh D. Black, U. S. N., traveled on the battleship Wyoming...