Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, the party chosen to board the Coolidge Special for Brule grew to 60, to 80, to 90. The total number included newsgatherers and camera men, but did not account for Rob Roy (white collie), Terrible Tim (red chow), Diana (white collie), Bessie (yellow collie), King Cole (black police dog) and the five White House canaries, all of whom were going...
...hoarder of pennies, good storyteller. Said he: "Are we disturbed? Well, perhaps disturbed, but not discouraged. Down, but not out. We accept the challenge. . . . Expenditure will be kept inside revenue, no matter what the decrease in revenue may be." General Lord stared the deficit in the face, recalled the black days of 1919: "In certain localities it is the custom to refer to the year of the big snow or the great flood. ... I think our Treasury will always refer to 1919 as the year of the big debt and big deficit" (debt, $26,596,701,648.01; deficit...
Grand Sachem Voorhis guessed that delegates to the Democratic convention of 1924 in Manhattan had learned "that the Tammany Tiger was not nearly the vicious animal some of them had supposed. The animal, as a matter of fact, has had one black eye during all its life and only...
...afternoon, the University crew paddled down to the three mile mark at a slow pace followed closely by Coach Brown in the "Black Pup" correcting the individual faults which were revealed in the four mile time trial last Saturday. On the return journey, Captain Watts did not lift the stroke above...
...America had been a bitter trick played on his two partners, villains both. These two worked their way to prosperity as American bootleggers, and came at last to London, still snarling and snorting for revenge. Their sophisticated method was the slow, subtle torture of intimidation; their exquisite object, that black-eyed mignon, Ardrington's adopted daughter. They employed for their villainous purposes thugs from London's underworld, and a beautiful Spanish matron whom they installed at the Ritz. But they had not reckoned with Martin's cool audacity, nor his marriageability, nor the girl he loved...