Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a gentle swishing of black robes and the slow-shuffling steps of wise old men, the Supreme Court of the U. S., august at Washington, convened for another autumn session in its semicircular little room in the Capitol...
Henry Ford brought out Model T that year, and a year later said he would make nothing else but. He also said: "Any customer can have a car painted any color he wants, so long as it is black...
Policemen. In the downtown district a 75-gallon still was raided. A little black notebook was seized. Acting on the contents of this book, District Attorney Monaghan summoned 23 policemen to his office. They were Capt. Charles Cohen of the 20th & Berks Streets Station, seven sergeants, three detectives, twelve patrol men. For hours Mr. Monaghan was a menacing interlocutor; it was then that he lost sleep. Several of the catechized broke down, one wept convulsively. All were arrested on bribery and extortion charges. Toward midnight they lined up in the City Hall corridors. They marched to jail, ironically...
...insulting taunt was hurled from a signed article by Il Duce, which all Italian newspapers obediently printed on the same day. Bachelors may well have blushed at these big black words...
...BLACK CROWS OF THE A. E. F-Charles E. Mack-Bobbs-Merrill...