Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vienna, a little room in an upholsterer's house was draped in black, lit with candles. A hundred years ago it was Schubert's death chamber. Last week it was empty save for an altar and a marble bust. Yet there, for tribute, gathered highest dignitaries to hear the solemn mass pronounced by His Eminence Gustave Frederic Cardinal Piffl, Archbishop of Vienna. Outside the little house the street was roped off, guarded by police. Only honored guests were admitted-and 500 school children who sang Schubert songs...
...There," he said, "you young devil, that will teach you to steal potatoes from the army and sell them to dirty food speculators. You have the red head of an imp from hell and the black heart of a capitalist. We have done with...
...tender spots? Not only was he the son of a Grand Rabbi and even the grandson of a Grand Rabbi but he was a Grand Rabbi himself; his name was Jehuda Leib Twersky, he was of venerable age, he came from Antwerp and he had a long, black, fluffy beard. The only clue to his thoughts was a remark he made when it was all over: "I believe that it was the most wretched experience of my whole life...
...dark, calculating eye-were apt pupils, useful aides in Drew's grim wrangle with Commodore Vanderbilt. Between them they trimmed the old war-horse in the Erie Railroad deal, and escaped melodramatically across the river (state line) with six millions of his greenbacks in a little black bag. When Drew thereupon double-crossed his juniors in a dicker with the commodore, Fisk and Gould cut loose upon an independent career of buying railroads, Tammany judges, and gold. On the famous Black Friday, 49 years ago, they cornered gold in a grand scandal of disaster. Fisk "went in" to save...
...further fancied himself as impresario, sank millions in grand opera (conveniently in the same flamboyant building with his Erie offices); and millions more for French farce and Shakespeare at the "Boudoir Theatre." By way of advertisement, he filled his splendid barouche-three white horses pulling on the right, three black horses on the left-with buxom wasp-waisted actresses in picture hats. But his mistress refused to. believe it mere advertisement, cuckolded him with his best friend-a double-dealing popinjay-and broke his heart. The popinjay, balked in blackmailing Jubilee Jim, shot him dead. Tammany-Boss Tweed...