Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...raining all evening and the sky looked "queer." Said Father Griffith: "It looks like a storm coming." Then came a roar, a crashing sound as of houses falling, and beneath the feet of the Griffiths the floor lifted up. Don heard his mother call to him, then everything went black. Recovering consciousness, Don found himself lying in mud amid the ruins of the Griffith house...
...Linda Banfi, only woman in centuries to have lived in the Vatican proper. She is pensioned now. At this meal, which is light, he likes a helping of rice boiled according to the recipe of Milan cooks; and occasionally a cutlet. He percolates his own coffee and drinks it black. While he lunches thus, prelates on their knees read him his correspondence and extracts from Italian and foreign newspapers. After luncheon he goes to his private apartments for a brief...
...train between Philippopolis and Sofia, Bulgaria, peasants with bulgy eyes and strained expressions are no rarity. Last week on the train such a one suddenly leaped at other third-class passengers, ripped their flesh with his black teeth, jerked his arms a few times, and died-of rabies...
...Chicago, one Otto Teeter, traveling man, posed proudly for a Tribune photographer to show off his new "black-bottom" trousers? white flannel with black cuffs...
Last week long meetings were held, black cigars chewed. Finally announcement was made that Hornsby's stock had been purchased by Mr. Breadon for $112,000, substantially the asking price; that all interested parties were happy once more; that the shrewd Mr. Hornsby would function at second base for the Giants on the opening...