Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This tiny modern bar made from two wall closets measures only three yards square. The whole room is finished in silver leaf, with the walls striped in blue, silver and copper color. Linoleum painted black, ivory, pink and tan covers the floor and the lights are tubes of frosted blue glass...
...spook pursued Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire through the corridors of Chicago's refined Blackstone Hotel one day last week. It was an aged, feeble spook, supposedly laid to rest nine years ago. It had many black hands, many pairs of big, white, rolling eyes. It sought the Senator as a supplicant, begging for rest...
...General Leonard Wood for the Presidency. In the South he and others harvested a fat crop of Negro delegates and, according to G. O. P. custom, took them on up to the convention at Chicago, all expenses paid, to vote for Wood. Quartered at the Vincennes Hotel, these black Republicans ate, drank and slept up $3,850 worth of hospitality. Only $1,500 was ever paid on their account by General Wood's unsuccessful managers...
...Lockport," 1846, 5¢ red & black...
...could remember Chéri as a baby ... by turns adored or forgotten, matured among blotchy maids and tall sardonic valets. . . ." At 14 Chéri fled from boarding school restraint, at 18 he was a miniature old man with black circles under his eyes, "a fussy little property owner with his nose in everything"?needlessly, for his mother was a well-paid harlot...