Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Mayor Thompson shouted and Chief Hughes compiled figures, leading citizens investigated for themselves. Besides the black eye which dramas like Chicago and The Racket were giving their city, citizens had become genuinely alarmed by hordes of crooks and thugs who, finding the alcohol and dope industries too highly organized to be profitable or even safe in Chicago, had turned to such bold badness as the "union racket"- a simple strongarm game, played with lead pipes and sawed-off shotguns, where the crooks formed "labor unions" of junk men, fish dealers, tailors, cobblers or other defenseless professionals, and shot...
...exhibition contains no less than seven examples in pottery and one painting ascribed to Kenzan; all are remarkably like the master's work, some of them are almost certainly by him. Koyetsu, less known abroad than his pupil Korin, is represented if only in delightful reproduction by a huge black pottery raven leaning forward to caw and by a single painting, more important, perhaps, than anything else in the three rooms. This is a tiny square of paper on which, in blue and gold, is a wave overlaid in spidery characters with that famous poem of the seventh century...
...house is the site of the 'Spreading Chestnut Tree.' The cottage of the 'Village Blacksmith' remains. About here there are many exquisite Colonial houses. Those that belonged to the Tories (i.e., the British loyalists who fled before the Revolutionists) are still identified by their white chimneys with a black band...
...Harvard Lampoon has just announced the election of the following officers: Alan Russell Black-burn Jr. '29, of Flushing, N. Y., President; Philip Hichborn '29, of Washington, D. C., Ibis; Henry Harrison Proctor '29, of Boston, Treasurer; and James De Normandie '29, of Boston, Secretary...
...Lect. Rm. Mr. Carpenter, 8 Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Dewey, 4, 20 New Lect. Hall Mr. Bushnell, 14 New Lect. Hall Mr. Harvey, 17 New Lect. Hall Mr. Keogh, 3, 16 New Lect. Hall Mr. Moore, 2, 18 New Lect. Hall Mr. Smyser, 19, 22 New Lect. Hall Mr. Black, 1 Memorial Hall Mr. McMullen, 5, 10, 15 Memorial Hall Mr. Raymond, 9, 12 Memorial Hall Mr. Wright, 13 Memorial Hall Fine Arts 5e Fogg Mus. Fine Arts 15f Fogg Mus. Fine Arts 17 Fogg Mus. French 10 Harvard 5 French 26 Harvard 6 Government 23 Harvard 6 History...