Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Washington observers saw in the Vinson appointment a Roosevelt gesture to the House less likely to backfire than the appointment of Senator Hugo Black to the Supreme Court, courtly Chairman Henry Fountain Ashurst of the Senate Judiciary Committee could not resist a sly dig as his committee received the appointments for confirmation. Indicating to newshawks that he might have to hold on them the extensive public hearings which Nominee Black did not get, Senator Ashurst put his old tongue in his cheek, observed: "You may say that the Judiciary Committee will proceed with exasperating slowness as has been...
...years, handsome, six-foot, curly black-haired and swankly mustached Robert Henry Ethelbert King-Tenison, Viscount Kingsborough, 40, heir to the Earl of Kingston, War veteran and a onetime subaltern in the Royal Scots Greys, was on terms of the greatest intimacy with a Miss Adele Royle, 34, dressmakers' mannequin. Early this spring His Lordship's attention began to wander, and Miss Royle promptly sued for breach of promise. The case was instantly quashed in the courts, and Mannequin Royle was fined costs of court. Last week Viscount Kingsborough struck back in turn. In Miss Royle...
Writing in a cat magazine, Clyde E. Keeler, instructor in Ophthalmic Research, recently predicted that it was only a question of time before some one would come up with a cat which would be a blue-smoke color with black fur filmed with silver...
Yesterday a kitten attended the feline show of the Boston Cat Club. The animal was blue-smoke with black fur lined with silver...
...fangled coloring of the cat is expected to win it high honors over such run-of-the-mill specimens as the black, white, red, and black-smoke animals...