Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bride dressed for her wedding in solid black is a feature of an exhibition of strange marriage rites of other times and lands arranged today at the library from the famous Widener collection...
...black bridal dress, it is explained, originated in Bohemia, where it was customary to regard marriage as an event of great religious solemnity, which the bride must approach with grave spirit...
...Members chortled at the policy of Home Secretary Sir John Simon in not having British police arrest Sir Oswald Mosley for his flagrant, daily violation of Parliament's recently enacted law barring in Britain the wearing of "political uniforms" such as a black shirt (TIME, Nov. 23). "I have worn this black shirt myself for six weeks!" cried Sir Oswald at a meeting of his BUF (British Union of Fascists). "Nothing has been done to me and we Fascists are beginning to assume that this black shirt I am wearing is not in the Government's view illegal...
Mongokuo has long had its own post office, issues its own stamps for internal use. Letters going "abroad" are handled by Manchukuo's post office. Mongokuo even flies its own flag, blue with a square of horizontal red, yellow, white and black stripes in one corner...
...grounds. The royalties they brought furnished most of the $1,000,000 which transformed New London's old wooden schoolhouse into one of the finest rural educational plants in the U. S. Still intact were the model home economics kitchens, playgrounds, sewing rooms, laboratories, built by the black crude oil that bubbles richly under the East Texas soil. Natural gas heated the individual classroom radiators in the Consolidated School. Whether it had leaked, in its odorless and highly explosive form, from a radiator or whether it had seeped into the unfinished school basement from the soil, no one seemed...