Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toward them, a line of schoolboys and gillies waving flags, beating dishpans. Crouched in the bottom of each butt was a nimble-fingered loader, ready to hand each "gun" his second weapon. Began the fastest most difficult wing shooting in the world. Flying 50 miles an hour, like rocketing black bullets, grouse zoomed straight over the butts. Hundreds of birds fell, hundreds more escaped to fly again another...
...This was the sensational play wherein, as a Tartar boy, she wore the first boyish bob on the New York stage. The place was the Bowery Theatre, lately burned down. Part of her part every night was to let herself be strapped quasi-nude to the back of a black, spirited horse. When the horse ran away, the audience gasped; their excitement, insinuates Author Oursler, for some reason of his own, being more spiritual than physical...
...Angeles and San Francisco markets, still open on the previous afternoon when the Board's announcement was made, had crashed badly. Six hours ahead of New York, Friday's market at Amsterdam had opened with U. S. Steel plunging downward. To add to the threat of another Black Friday*; was the fact that brokers loans reached a new all time high, over six billion dollars. At the New York Stock Exchange, the gallery was packed with spectators by 9:30 a.m. Five minutes before the opening the ticker flashed: "The floor is filled with sellers...
...picked his teeth with a pine tree. He spat ponds of tobacco juice. Tussling with his foreman, Hels Helsen, he trampled down an oldtime plateau until all that was left were the black hills of South Dakota...
...bridge of his big white steam yacht Nourmahal and gave a signal. A gun boomed. Moorings were slipped and out sailed the fleet in the wake of Commodore William Vincent Astor. Among many another power craft that churned along with the fleet was John Pierpont Morgan's rakish black Corsair steaming near the Nourmahal as committee boat...