Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having damned legislation in the Senate for two sessions past, the Swing-Johnson bill to build the world's hugest dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, was last week passed by the Senate, 64 to 11. Passed by the House last spring, the measure now went to conference to have House-Senate differences composed...
...young gentleman cries NO, NO! NOT THAT! A third displays a lady in taxicab whose face expresses explosive frenzy as she shouts at her indolent escort YOU'RE SO KIND TO ME, AND I'M SO TIRED OF IT ALL! Artist Arno painted these scenes in black writing ink with washes of lampblack. His lines are brisk, graceful. They grotesquely exaggerate his figures, deftly point his themes...
...through the energy and shrewdness of a young employe named James Fisk. When the war was over, the Jordan Marsh Co. found that Fisk's temperament was not adapted to peacetime merchandising, ousted him. Fisk went on to a career of high finance, became the Jim Fisk of Black Friday*and similar notoriety...
...SATURDAY, JANUARY 19. (XVI) Economics 32 Sever 17 Engin. Sciences 3b Robinson Hall English A Mr. Balch, 18 Emerson D Mr. Black, 13, 14 New Lect. Hall Mr. Bowers, 4, 9 Memorial Hall Mr. Brower, 6, 12 New Lect. Hall Mr. Carpenter, 3, 8 Memorial Hall Mr. Coues, 7, 10, 22 New Lect. Hall Mr. Harvey, 23 New Lect. Hall Mr. Jackson, 2, 17 New Lect. Hall Mr. Keyes, 1 Memorial Hall Mr. Moore, 15, 20 Harvard 5 Mr. Roberts, 5, 11, 19 Emerson D Mr. Smyser, 21, 24 Harvard G Mr. Wright, 16 Harvard 3 Fine Arts 5e Fogg...
...Lily Christine's pink and black jacket is a subtitle mentioning good woman; on her title page in pink fast deflowering to purple she nevertheless promises "a romance." This for Michael Arlen of the onetime vogue is an amalgam so incongruous that one can but suspect him of a publicity trick. The suspicion is confirmed by the old sophisticated sentimentalities of style ill-matched to a heroine, beautiful though near-sighted and bespectacled, passionately devoted to her children though they visit the pages but once, loyal to a faithless husband though she begs one of her many admirers...