Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mexican Ambassador Seņor Don Manuel C. Tellez, a young up-from-the-ranks diplomat famed for his sharp humor. A short man with glistening black hair and classic Spanish features, he is the discreetly jovial host at many a lavish entertainment at the Mexican Embassy...
...private corporation which undertook to make it a "place for the fashionable and fastidious." The rental was $8,500 per year. The corporation sold the hat-check privilege alone for $12,000. Joseph Urban was hired to decorate the interior in rhythmic maroons and greens. A black glass ceiling was placed over the ballroom. A "continental atmosphere" was evoked. Last week the Casino was opened to 600 special guests carefully culled from the Social Register by Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., Board Chairman of the corporation and social arbiter of the new Casino. Said Mr. Biddle: "All we wanted...
Owen D. Young caught the Aquitania last week, and it was important that he should do so. On June 15 he was due to be in Cleveland, calling the world's attention to the marriage of his sober-minded son, Charles Jacob, to Miss Esther Mary Christensen, talented black-and-white artist, chic daughter of Danish inventor and Vice Consul Niels Anton Christensen...
...black cat prowled about a London shop. Its side brushed softly against a small silver statue of Cragadour, Lord Astor's favorite for the Epsom Derby. The statue trembled, fell. Next day, all England heard of the incident. The next night the statue was stolen. Throughout England filtered a whispered nervous doubt...
...airdrome in Wichita, Kan., skeptics once doubted that he had really snared ducks flying at 100 m. p. h. 50 to 100 ft. above the ground. To an airplane he tastened a 50-ft. cord, a 1-ft. string, an old black sock, 18 in. long, 4 in. in diameter. The plane then swooped in an arc 100 ft. above him, the sock streaking out behind it. With a 5½-ft. bait-casting rod and a line with a nine-hook plug, he hooked the sock and jerked it from the string on three out of five tries...