Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Health Director, and four Health Inspectors stoutly praised the Slasher. All were arrested, will be tried for "criminal incompetence," probed to see if they have taken bribes from shrewd Cobbler Kolesnikov. Stars & Stripes. Raucous foghorns and tooting whistles dinned a welcome last week across the harbor of Novorossiisk, bustling Black Seaport. Slowly in steamed the little S. S. Exford, flying stars, stripes. Excited Soviet stevedores cheered. Now there would be more work, plenty of tchervontzi (banknotes, 1 tchz. = $5.13) to earn. The little Exford, owned by Manhattan's pioneering American Export Line, hove into Novorossiisk as the first ship...
...fabulous dividends. Records the raiders found, but no directors. "BIGGEST DRY RAID" blared press headlines the next morning. A picked detachment of raiders invaded the field headquarters of the syndicate, an isolated 20-room mansion high on a New Jersey headland, onetime country house of the late Oscar Hammerstein, black cigar & light opera tycoon. Oriental rugs, costly new furniture adorned the living rooms. Beneath the house were labyrinthine tunnels where boatloads of liquor could be stored. On the roof was a lookout post and a searchlight for flashing messages out to sea. Conveniently placed was a well-stocked arsenal. Warlike...
...thwarted grandmother in a cloud of fluttering veils flounced out of Bucharest last week, announced resignedly that she would spend her birthday (54th) at bleak, inclement Balcic located on the Black...
...Umpire Crone did what umpires often long to do to fresh players. Straley fell awkwardly, did not get up. Policemen escorted Crone from the field, held him in $5,000 bail for manslaughter. On Oct. 20, 1910, the Chicago Tribune published on its front page, surrounded by a heavy black margin, a brief obituary surmounted by an urn and supported by a wreath. Last week, by request of a Philadelphian, the Tribune published the same obituary: HOPE-Beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fan of this city departed this life yesterday afternoon at the West Side Ball Park after...
...Barometers", Professor Black, Jefferson Physical Laboratory...