Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...murder in the first degree", declared Bob Lampoon, the incomparable jester, grand vizier and high lama at all of Lampy's festive functions. "When vandals slunk down under cover of a black and windy night and sever the life's blood of a tree, cherished by me for over three years, it is then time for the Cambridge Police to send in riot calls, and to deal death in the Brattle Square Police Station without the fruitless efforts of a trial...
...certain that there are more unknown infantrymen with their feet on the laboratory firesteps of medical science than in any other field of endeavor in the world. Not only an outbreak approaches an epidemic does the public wonder how many nascent Black Plagues have been stamped out in a test tube...
...Minerva Gump, etc., etc. Above the edge of the newspaper, courtroom idlers could see Mr. McAndrew's iron grey hair. Occasionally he put the newspaper down and chuckled. Then the idlers noted his white whiskers well tinged with red, his high color, his eyebrows that laid a direct black line across his forehead...
...memorial meeting in honor of the late Dr. E. Charlton Black, former lecturer on English Literature at the University, and member of the University Extension Commission, who died last summer, will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Boston Public Library Lecture Hall, under the auspices of the Boston Ruskin Club. All members of the University are invited to attend...
...Black, who lectured here from 1891 to 1893 and was on the Extension Commission from 1910 to 1927, was an author of note, having written several books on Shakespeare and been editor of the Hudson Shakespeare...