Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sharp eyes picked out famed newcomers: Illinois's Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, in sheer white; New York's Mrs. Ruth Pratt next to her swart Manhattan colleague, Mr. La Guardia; Florida's Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, resplendent in solid black with a rope of pearls; dark Oscar de Priest, the grey-wooled Negro from Illinois, far in the rear...
...grey harbor waters, usually strident with ship whistles, were muffled to a low-breathing hush, which was broken heavily by a 21-gun salute from Governor's Island. At the French Line pier in Manhattan, La Tourville docked gingerly, took aboard great men in black clothes to stand, lost in their own thoughts, about the casket. On a mulberry-colored cushion rested the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh stood there, his shoulders drooped in memory of Le Bourget, Paris, 1927. At sharp noon a bugle shrilled. Fifteen wiry French sailors lifted the coffin...
...encountered with wearisome incessancy throughout the year. In Property I Professor Edward Warren's casebook is an amazing confession of the hopelessness of the task which it essays. The pages are heavily laden with so-called "notes" by the author and extracts from the texts of Littleton, Coke, Black stone. Fearne, Washburn and others calculated to bring to light the shreds of learning which the cases have obscured. To call such a book a casebook is an egregious misnomer, and with it as the basis of instruction the "system" under which the course is conducted might be more aptly termed...
Hardly a day goes by that one is not forcibly made aware of what these men have been doing for the sweetest of the arts; and even in the black of night the cloistered scholar may awake to find the strains of music penetrating the former fastness of the Yard. How unbecoming then to impute motives other than the keenest interest in making sport to the promoters of the present music marathon...
...Photometry and Illumination", Professor Black, Physical Laboratory...