Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bang! Bang! BANG! The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod was striking pon- derously with that heavy instrument, last week, the door of the Canadian House of Commons. Thus summoned, the Right Honorable Members followed Black Rod to the Red Chamber of the Canadian Senate. Soon His Majesty's Governor General, Viscount Willingdon, pronounced the Speech from the Throne, opening Parliament...
...volume there is also a paragraph describing the dress required by an undergraduate, whose coat should be "black-mixed, single breasted, with a rolling cape square at the end, and with pocket flaps: waist reaching to the natural waist, lapel of the same length; skirts reaching to the bend of the knee; three crows-feet, made of black silk cord, on the lower part of the sleeve of a Senior, two on that of the Junior, and one on that of a Sophomore. The pantaloons of black mixed or of black bombazet, or when of cotton or linen fabric...
...Philip Yarrow. Superintendent of the Illinois Vigilance Association, last week thrilled a Chicago audience, mostly women, by producing on the Masonic Temple platform a black robed, hooded, masked figure who croaked sepulchrally: "I have consorted with the dregs of humanity. I have waded through cesspools of vice in order to carry out my investigations. I have played poker with the brother of Al Capone! I have a sixth sense...
...Steel Corp.) and Allentown. Beyond them cement mills sit greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks. Local stations are one, two, three and four miles apart. From Mauch Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet of "Black Diamond." At Mauch Chunk the main line gradient becomes so steep that a "helper" engine must help pull on the trains. Thence the roadbed becomes a chute between cliffs, trees, coal tupples and culm banks into Wilkes-Barre...
Died. Anthony Rousch Mills, 77, potent westerner; at Sundance, Wyo. "Thirty years back," Mills, climbing a trail in the Black Hills, encountered a grizzly. The bear lunged; bumped the shot gun over a ravine; bit off Mills's nose; seized him by the leg and started to drag him over the rocks. The hardy Mills stopped the flight by catching at a tree. Pulling his knife, he turned over and cut the bear's jugular vein...