Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Purposeful, he tore through the gale at 100 miles an hour?finally sighting and circling over Ocotal. "Click" went the small, simple mechanism of his bomb release. Far below, masses of men became suddenly red, formless and conglomerate. Within half an hour a flock of black vultures were coasting down through the hot, cruel...
...green buckram," marshaling perhaps 2,000 mourners. The Super-Reporter noted "an old wattled hinterland peasant with gold earrings. . . . The pathetic mourning of the very poor?ragged arm bands made from black petticoats. . . ." He described the 60 coffins at the grey stone gates "under the splendor of flowers, red banners and black streamers." He let Novelist Lewis spill drops of irony on the "oozing" funeral orations: ". . . such measured, useful and reasonable words . . . uttered by bearded and clever men?all of it like a nice debating society...
...still ...... 1 Fox trotting .... 4.78 Walking slowly.. 2.6 Stone masonry.. 5.53 Light gymnastics 2.9 Heavy gymnastics 6.7 House painting 3.3 sawing wood...6.8 Walking rapidly 3.8 Housekeeping .. 3.31 Charles polka-ing ............ 7.56 Waltzing ............ 3.99 Foil fencing ........8.25 Shimmying ...... 4.02 Sabre fencing.,.. 8.69 Washing clothes 4.21 Running ............ 9.7 Black bottoming 4.68 Mazourka-ing ..10.87 Schottishing ...... 4.76 Wrestling...
Down at the house, Morhead returns, made more bestial by War. The women are drawn to the God, "the black maypole," on the mountain, which now is scourged to the north by fire from the camps. Natalia smothers her child to preserve its innocence. April, informed with her dead brother's spirit, smuggles out a pistol to kill her father but quails at sight of him, shoots herself instead. He roams back into the burnt hills, fasting, escaped from human automatisms, inexhaustible, thirsting to create...
Word, the black crystal structure...