Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houghton proceeded to German-populated St. Louis and there painted a most moving picture of the Hoover services in feeding post-War Germany. The picture included "little girls . . . white, emaciated, unsmiling . . . with great awful eyes," and "a woman dressed in black" in Berlin at "that dreadful Christmas season of 1922 . . . the tears streaming down her face, carrying in her hand a little piece of hemlock." At the outset it appeared that Mr. Houghton had been sent to St. Louis to counteract a political canard that Mr. Hoover had been unkind to Germans. But at the end he said, "This...
...record. The first two encounters went to Lehigh by 14 to 7 scores, with both St. John's College and the Pennsylvania Military College on the short end of the count. A fairly powerful Gettysburg combination next eked out a 7 to 0 win. Then came the Orange and Black debacle, but last Saturday there were marked signs of a Lehigh resorgimento when the team from Bethlehem triumphed over Muhienberg...
...Turk or Rooshian, or an Eye-tal-l-an. But in spite of all temptations he remained, or became, as the case may be, a Republican. And he went to Boston in his old clothes and several busses, and down the streets which know him, perhaps, in the soberer black and white of evening, dress he flung roses and other things riotously with the throng to the greater glory of a Presidential candidate...
...Villains." The U. S. public speculated as to the relative "villainy" of the principals in the Salt Creek affair. To Oilman Sinclair's record, another black mark was added. It hardly showed against the background. Similarly with Albert Bacon Fall...
...seater, serves her supper at the blazing hearth, listens to her footlight triumphs. In short, he is so thoroughbred that she succumbs to the illicit blandishments of the leading man in her show. Fond Michael, suddenly informed, spoils the matinée idol's beauty with a black eye and bloody nose. The wife repents...